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	Highland Land League - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		As the Highland Land League it was consciously modelled on the Irish Land League.
		The Land League was associated also however with direct-action protest tactics and the use of these tactics was to reappear in the early 20th century.
		Some resources were put into development of the communications infrastructure of the Highlands and Islands (roads, railways, and harbours) and, in the early years of the 20th century the Congested Districts Board was able to push through the establishement of new crofting townnships on Skye and in the Strathnaver area of Sutherland.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Highland_Land_League (1129 words)

	Irish Land League - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Irish Land League was an Irish political organization of the late 19th century which aimed to help poor tenant farmers.
		The Irish Land League was founded on 21st October, 1879 after other land leagues had been set up in various other counties -- notably in County Mayo -- on 16th August 1879.
		The League was created just before the Land War of 1880-1882 in which there was widespread upheaval.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Land_League (342 words)

	West Highland Free Press
		The West Highland Free Press was founded in 1972 as a left-wing weekly newspaper, but with the principal objective of providing its immediate circulation area with the service which a local paper is expected to provide.
		It is a slogan borrowed from the Highland Land League which, in the late l9th century, fought the crucial battle to win security of tenure for crofters.
		For the first time in decades there is a newspaper in the Highlands which actively opposes the grotesque maldistribution of land ownership that still characterises the region, and stands up for the rights of local communities and individuals.
	www.whfp.demon.co.uk (354 words)

	Portrait of A Patriot - William Gillies, by Stephen Coyle, 1997 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Into the campaign that ensued, William Gillies entered with enthusiasm as a propagandist of the Highland Land League, not failing to maintain his support for the cause of "Tir agus Teanga" (Land and Language), when later, once more by direct action, the inadequacy and deceits of the Crofter Act of 1886 were challenged.
		Indeed in October of that year MacLean was the main speaker at a League commemoration at Arbroath Abbey to mark the 600th anniversary of the Declaration of Scottish Independence.
		The Scots National League eventually became one of the constituent organisations of the modern Scottish National Party.
	srsm.port5.com /swr/williamgillies97.html (958 words)

	The Struggle for the land
		One of his disciples, Thomas Evans, at the end of the Wars wrote: "All the land, the waters, the mines, the houses, and all permanent feudal property, must be returned to the people".
		The Highland Land League which grew out of these events rapidly gained support, and the government was forced to make some concessions like a rent tribunal and security of tenure as long as the rent was paid.
		This time though, the Welsh Land League that resulted from this crisis was thoroughly constitutional and no direct action on a large scale took place.
	flag.blackened.net /af/org/issue51/land2.html (1922 words)

	Knoydart Land Seizures (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		After the solemn assurances given earlier in the week that the men would submit to arrest for their continued occupancy of the land, this unexpected development was in the nature of an anti-climax.
		As soon as the seizure of the land was made public, expressions of support and eagerness to help, financially and otherwise, flowed in from far and near.
		The Knoydart land wastage is a particularly flagrant one.
	www.yfinnie.demon.co.uk /contents2/knoydart.html (904 words)

	A Short History of Crofting in Skye
		Highlanders, however, were not content with these proposals, as security of tenure and fair rents were their basic requirements.
		The Highlands Congested Districts Board was established and money was set aside for the improvement of roads and bridges; for the development of the fishing and tweed industries, and for the general improvement of the crofters' lot.
		Throughout the Highlands a great deal of improvement of land and livestock has taken place with the help of the Crofters Commission but the problem of providing industry and employment is not within the scope of the Commission.
	pages.eidosnet.co.uk /~skye/crofting.html (3675 words)

	Andy Wightman (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Land is political in the sense that it is about the nature, derivation, distribution and exercise of power over sovereign territory - the sovereign territory of Scotland - and it is here that the more overt challenges for the political system lie.
		Land reform is a process which should aim to modernise our framework of land law as part of the redistribution of power over land necessary to promote social and economic progress and environmental stewardship.
		Land reform is thus both a legitimate topic for political debate and a legitimate topic to be politicised.
	www.caledonia.org.uk /land/wightman.htm (9009 words)

	The Crofters' Party - 1885 to 1892 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		The group had varying degrees of links to the Highland Land League which had been established to independently promote the interests of crofters and their specific land rights.
		The League had been founded in 1882 by a number of professional men from the Scottish cities but formed its branches very largely from among the crofters themselves, and these branches spread throughout the Highlands in the next three years.
		Although the Crofter MP group and the Land League were to be short-lived, they aroused considerable national attention at the time, and are of some significance in the development of British political life.
	www.caledonia.org.uk /land/crowley.htm (198 words)

	Articles - Scottish Highlands (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		The Highland Region, created in 1975, is now a unitary authority area which excludes a large chunk of the southern and eastern Highlands, and the Western Isles, but includes Caithness.
		In Highland Council literature there is evident confusion, perhaps deliberate, of the Highland authority area with that of the traditional Scottish Highlands, and the council has erected controversial signs in the Pass of Drumochter, between Glen Garry and Dalwhinnie, saying "Welcome to the Highlands".
		Highland Park is a single malt Scotch whisky, which is distilled in Orkney, which is not part of either the administrative area of Highland nor the Scottish Highlands.
	www.foreverc.com /articles/Scottish_Highlands (353 words)

	Colonialism & Clearance: The Highland Condition Part II (1750-1820) By Domhnaidh Friseil (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		In Denmark communal land was enclosed and populations shifted but state funds were made available for relocation and legislation introduced to prevent the division of land too small to support a family, measures which prevented the huge social problems created by the destruction of the Highland economy.
		With less land to use the crofters were forced to rely on potatoes as their staple diet, and by 1811 potatoes consisted 80% of the average Hebridean diet.
		The Highlands as a net-exporter of manpower, whether as labour or cannon-fodder, and a net-exporter of raw materials such as wool and kelp, to the largely English markets was colonised and governed by a small elite who administered the Highlands, and indeed Scotland, for their London masters.
	srsm.port5.com /swr/autumn04/colonclear.html (5940 words)

	Scottish House
		In 500 under King Fergus, the Scots invaded Argyll and established the realm known as ''Dál Riata'' (Dalriada) in the Pictish lands known as Caledonia by the Romans.
		Most of the Highlands fall into the region known as the Gaidhealtachd, pronounced roughly ''Gailtahk'', which was, within the last hundred years, the Gaelic speaking area of Scotland.
		The Highlands consist of an old dissected plateau, or block, of ancient crystalline rocks with incised valleys and lochs carved by the action of mountain streams and by ice,
	www.artistbooking.com /trips/183/scottish-house.html (1761 words)

	VILLAGE OF HIGHLAND
		Highland, Wisconsin is a friendly, vibrant, rural community with 797 residents in the Town of Highland and 868 residents in the Village of Highland.
		Located between the Villages of Highland and Cobb, tourists are attracted to Blackhawk Lake Recreation Area, which has 150 spacious campsites, a 220-acre lake, and 2,000 acres of surrounding beauty, with opportunities for picnicking, hiking, fishing, swimming and boating.
		The key objectives of this celebration were (and remains) to have fun, to acknowledge Highland as a great community and to honor active Service people.
	www.villageofhighland.net (487 words)

	The Highland Folk Museum, crofting (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		A croft is a small farm of a sort peculiar to the Highlands and Islands of Scotland.
		Coastal strips, and other marginal land, were used to re-settle Highlanders pushed out of their traditional holdings in the name of economic reform.
		What distinguishes this croft from others, John goes on, is the fact that, instead of being equipped and managed in the manner of its twenty-first-century counterparts, it is operated strictly in accord with the practices of the mid-1930s.
	www.highlandfolk.com /jh2.htm (832 words)

	scottish heritage - genealogy scotland - clans - scottish associations - historical attractions (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Yet for most people actually living in the Highlands, their conditions and their lifestyles were as wretched as they had ever been.
		The battle over land between Highlanders and their landlords rumbled on, sometimes violently, until the Highland Land League was formed in 1882.
		As native Highland inhabitants moved out to seek a living elsewhere, so the rich middle classes moved in to take over the area for their own enjoyment.
	www.scotlandonline.com /heritage/heritage_period.cfm?tl_id=1&id=43 (1288 words)

	Highland Land League -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		They were formed at a meeting in (Largest city in Scotland; a port in west central Scotland; one of the great shipbuilding centers of the world) Glasgow in 1909, taking the same name of an earlier body that had wound down its activities in the (The decade from 1890 to 1899) 1890s.
		It was broadly a left-wing group that sought the restoration of deer forests to public ownership, abolition of plural farms and the nationalisation of the land.
		They also resolved to resolutely defend (An owner or tenant of a small farm in Great Britain) crofters facing eviction by their landlords.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/h/hi/highland_land_league.htm (206 words)

	saothar 1983 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Davitt initiated the Land League in Mayo on 20 April, 1879, in response to the current famine, with a demand for a reduction in rents(23).
		The activity of the Land League extended to the North; for example Davitt addressed a meeting in Armagh in 1880, solidly Protestant and chaired by the Grand Master of the Orange Lodge(26).
		The Kilmainham 'Treaty' and the subsequent run-down of the Land League and the split with Davitt is interpreted by Metscher in class terms; Parnell's anti-trade-unionism was a forerunner of de Valera's 'Labour must wait'.
	www.iol.ie /~rjtechne/library/saothar2.htm (4650 words)

	Siol nan Gaidheal - History of Our Movement
		Highland dress and culture became fashionable and even the Hanoverian King William the Fourth masqueraded as a Highland chieftain dressing in the kilt and lauding the Tartan throughout his single visit to Scotland.
		The bitter legacy of the Highland Clearances and the struggle of the Highland Crofters to obtain security of tenure over their land was fundamental in bringing together the different strands of Scottish Nationalist ideology.
		He was aware of the establishment of the Irish Land League by Irish Nationalists such as Michael Davitt.
	www.siol-nan-gaidheal-canada.com /hstoom.htm (7282 words)

	Scotland's Past - The Highland Clearances (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		After 1770 there was a significant change in the Highland economy, sheep farming gradually spread from the borders northwards, although it did not reach the far north until the 1790's.
		This classic account of the events which shaped the modern Highlands was written by a man who has gone on to become a leading figure in the public life of that region.
		The Highland clans that Scott called to Edinburgh were the subjects of eviction and persecution in their homeland.
	www.scotlandspast.org /highland.cfm (2683 words)

	Samuel Marr - Ruaraidh Arascairn is Mhàirr (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		The Scottish National League (SNL) is one of the most significant chapters in the story of early nationalism and the most important of the many groups in which Erskine of Marr was involved.
		The SNL mainly consisted of nationalists living in London and was based upon the remnants of the final incarnation of the Highland Land League.
		It must be remembered however that the Scottish National League was not alone in its use of racial notions as these ideas were common currency amongst all shades of political opinion in inter-war European politics.
	www.geocities.com /samuelmarr/ruaraidh.html (2668 words)

	Untitled
		Before the reform legislation of 1885 Highland politics was dominated by landowners or their representatives often supporting the Conservatives who put the landowners interests first.
		It was a natural extension of the principle that if a land act was to be created improving the rights of rural tenants that it should also apply to the crofters of Scotland.
		The Highland Land Law Reform Association (HLLRA) had similar demands to it's precursor in Ireland the Irish Land League and the Irish Nationalist Party may also have helped inspire the tactics of the Crofters Party.
	www.suite101.com /print_article.cfm/15457/82947 (672 words)

	The Scottish Highlands in Colonial & Psychodynamic Perspective
		They are taking the lands from the natives and wherever they have done so, the result has been an abundant supply of 'labour on the market' with wages kept down by the competition of landless men, just as they are at home.
		The "Highland Clearances," which forced Scottish people off their land from the late eighteenth to early twentieth century, were an event of cultural genocide which paralleled and in many respects, pioneered patterns of colonial conquest elsewhere in the British Empire.
		"Unlike feudal forms of land ownership, the land of the Highland clan was not the private property of the chief, but the public property of the clansfolk."[18] Kinship was therefore focused around the personhood of the chief, not "his" lands.
	www.alastairmcintosh.com /articles/1994_interculture.htm (6679 words)

	House of Commons Hansard Debates for 13 Jan 1998 (pt 32)
		It had the power to intervene in land use and to acquire land where it was under-used and underexploited.
		Fourthly, where there is to be large-scale purchase of land, especially in the highlands and islands, there should be conditional and legally enforceable land-use codes.
		It is an opportunity to resolve the land issue, which has stymied highland land development for generations.
	www.parliament.the-stationery-office.co.uk /pa/cm199798/cmhansrd/vo980113/debtext/80113-32.htm (2015 words)

	Middle East Open Encyclopedia: Goidelic (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		For example, it was the everyday language of most of the rest of the Highlands until little more than a century ago.
		By the seventeenth century Gaelic speakers were restricted largely to the Highlands and the Hebrides.
		Furthermore, the culturally repressive measures taken against the rebellious highland communities by the British crown following the 2nd Jacobite Rebellion of 1746 caused still further decline in the language's use.
	www.baghdadmuseum.org /ref/index.php?title=Goidelic (1365 words)

	Scottish Gaelic language (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		By the early 16th century however, the Gaelic language had acquired the name Erse, meaning Irish, and it was the the Inglis language that came to be referred to as Scottis (today's Scots or Scottish).
		The Land League was dissipated as a parliamentary force by the 1886 Crofters' Act and by the way the Liberal Party was seen to become supportive of Land League objectives.
		Lowland Gaelic was spoken in the southern regions of Scotland prior to the introduction of Lowland Scots.
	www.worldhistory.com /wiki/S/Scottish-Gaelic-language.htm (3328 words)

	Am Baile - A typical croft house in the rural Highlands (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Coastal strips and other disused pieces of land were used to re-house highlanders who were evicted from their homes during a time of economic reform.
		However, highlanders were still vulnerable to eviction and many of the victims of the clearances were desperate to aqcuire more land.
		This discontent led to a protest campaign during the 1880s which was headed by a political group known as 'The Highland Land League'.
	www.ambaile.org.uk /en/item/item_photograph_print.jsp?item_id=6765 (218 words)

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