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	League - LoveToKnow 1911
		"The League," in French history, is that of the Catholics headed by the Guises to preserve the Catholic religion against the Huguenots and prevent the accession of Henry of Navarre to the throne (see France: History).
		Of commercial leagues the most famous is that of the Hanse towns, known as the Hanseatic League.
		In this system clubs "league" together in a competition, each playing every,other member of the association twice, and the order of merit is decided by the points gained during the season, a win counting two and a draw one.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /League (376 words)

	The Irish (in countries other than Ireland)
		Who were the first Irish to land on the American continent and the time of their arrival are perhaps matters of conjecture rather than of historical proof; but that the Irish were there almost at the beginning of the colonial era is a fact support by historical records.
		On land, the last decisive battle of the war, that at New Orleans, was won by troop largely of Irish origin under the leadership of Andrew Jackson, another son of Irish parents.
		While men of the Irish race were engaged on the battlefield in defence of their adopted country, accompanied and encouraged by the clergy, the religious orders of women within the Church were no less diligent in nursing the sick and wounded in camps and hospitals.
	www.catholicity.com /encyclopedia/i/irish.html (16771 words)

	AllRefer.com - Irish Land Question (British And Irish History) - Encyclopedia
		The National Land League, founded under the leadership of Michael Davitt and Charles Stewart Parnell, conducted a campaign of boycott and violence that influenced the passage of the Land Act of 1881, called the "Magna Carta" of the Irish farmer.
		The Irish Agricultural Organization Society, fostered (1894) by Sir Horace Plunkett, began to encourage agricultural cooperation and improved farming methods; this led to the establishment (1899) of the Irish Dept. of Agriculture.
		The agitation of the United Irish League, under William O'Brien, demanding compulsory sales by landlords, led to the Wyndham Act of 1903 and the Amended Land Purchase Act of 1909.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/I/IrishLan-1.html (679 words)

	On the Irish Land League by Michael Davitt. Ireland (1775-1902). Vol. VI. Bryan, William Jennings, ed. 1906. The ...
		On the Irish Land League by Michael Davitt.
		They are charged, respectively, by the accused and the accusers, with the responsibility for the agrarian crimes of the period covered by this inquiry.
		One is Irish landlordism, the other is the Irish Land League.
	www.bartleby.com /268/6/22.html (1023 words)

	Ireland's OWN: History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		On the issue of payment of rent, which the Land League claimed to be excessive in times of agricultural depression, tactics varied from the payment of no rent, to an affordable rent, or a rent reduced between 20 and 25 per cent.
		The Land League was the suppressed and outlawed, and Parnell imprisoned.
		The Land Act of 1891 created a congested districts board empowered to purchase land and create viable holdings in the poorest areas in the western counties from Donegal to Cork and a loan fund for tenants who wished to purchase their lands.
	irelandsown.net /landwar.html (1158 words)

	Irish language - HighBeam Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Irish Land Question name given in the 19th cent.
		In the 18th cent., under the Penal Laws, Roman Catholics—the vast majority of the Irish population—were prevented from acquiring land.
		Landlord responses to the Irish Land War, 1879-87.
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-IrishLan.html (841 words)

	The Emergence of Modern Irish Socialism 1885-87 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Irish historiography has traditionally been inadequate with regard to working-class political life and this is especially true for late nineteenth-century Ireland.
		The Land League, which sought the diminution of landlordism and the promotion of peasant-proprietorship, was ultimately banned in October 1881 and many of its leaders interned.
		Moreover, the libertarian socialism of the Socialist League remained influential within Dublin socialism until, arguably, the arrival of 'new unionism' and the subsequent establishment of branches of the Independent Labour Party in the mid-1890s.
	flag.blackened.net /revolt/rbr/rbr3_irish.html (2812 words)

	Irish National Land League - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Irish Land League was an Irish political organization of the late 19th century which sought to help poor tenant farmers.
		The period of the Land League's agitation is known in Ireland as the Land War.
		The Irish National Land League was founded at the Imperial Hotel in Dublin, on 21st October, 1879.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Irish_Land_League (504 words)

	Clyde E. Reeves / Philadelhphia's Maternal Link with the Land League Fathers
		Michael Davitt, the acknowledged "Father of the Land League" was not in Philadelphia for the rites.
		In the Land League crisis he was arrested and jailed for one thing or another more often and held for longer than any of the others.
		The Land League was the one national movement that recognized women and availed itself of their services as citizens, instead of shutting them out, like children, from the conduct of political business; and it was precisely to this exceptional attitude towards women that the Land League movement owed its exceptional success."
	www.cooperativeindividualism.org /reeves-clyde_on-land-league.html (2512 words)

	The League with Ulster, Charles Gavan Duffy. http://www.from-ireland.net, ©Jane Lyons
		The reception of the League by the country was something as unprecedented as the union from which it sprang.
		The League felt that the contest was about to be a decisive one, and an address to the electors of Ross, signed by fifty leading Leaguers, North and South, lay and clerical, was issued and a strong deputation of Northerners and Southerners addressed the constituency in a public meeting.
		The object of the Leaguers in this Conference was to obtain the adhesion of the whole body of members to the critical and cardinal policy of Independent Opposition.
	www.from-ireland.net /history/landleagueduffy.htm (5155 words)

	INA/Irish History 1845-1848 The Great Hunger
		The Fenians, or the Irish Republican Brotherhood, were formed in the late 1850s, inspired by the ideas of Wolfe Tone and steeled in their determination by the British genocide policies and devastation suffered during The Famine.
		The objects of the Land League were: 1] To put an end to rank-renting, evictions and landlord oppression; 2] To effect such a radical change in the land system as would put it in the power of every Irish farmer to become the owner, in fair terms, of the land he tilled.
		In the course of the land war a new word was coined--Boycott--when the land of a Captain Boycott, a rack-renting landlord who refused to accept the fair rents, was shunned by all the people in the surrounding areas.
	www.inac.org /irishhistory/1845.php (1166 words)

	mrn6 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The English occupied the land in Ireland and the Irish were made to pay rent to live and farm land that had been in their families for centuries.
		He chose County Mayo to begin his campaign of "land for the people." Mayo was where the practice of rack renting and evictions was among the worst in Ireland and where he and his family were evicted.
		The Land league, supported by many priests, told the farmers to think of the needs of their family before paying rents to the landlords.
	users.ev1.net /~gpmoran/mrn6.htm (1486 words)

	A History of the Irish Language
		Irish and her sister languages, Welsh and Breton, are among the oldest living languages in Europe.
		Irish scribes would sometimes 'gloss' or annotate in the margins of their manuscripts, and it is from these glosses that much of our knowledge of 'Old Irish' has come.
		Irish developed from one of the Celtic dialects brought to bronze age Ireland and Britain by the iron age Celts, who inhabited Central Europe some three thousand years ago.
	www.irelandseye.com /aarticles/culture/talk/irishguide/histir.shtm (765 words)

	Welcome to Edward T. O'Donnell's Site
		The League called for the redistribution of property from landlords (who would be compensated) to tenants.
		The Land League and its radical tenant protest faded by 1883, but the boycott lived on.
		Irish workers introduced it to America in the early 1880s and transformed it from social ostracism in a rural setting to economic shunning in an industrial one.
	www.edwardtodonnell.com /hibchronboycott.html (803 words)

	What is Known About The Irish in North America: Part Two
		That those Irish Catholics who came to Canada were "Loyalist" in politics as compared to those who went to the US That the Irish Catholics who moved to Canada were in some ways culturally advantaged in comparison to those who went to the United States.
		Total Irish Catholic group in Canada certainly is large enough to permit it to be studied as a separate sub group.
		Second, and more important, even if Irish Catholic migrants to America tended to be "republican" and those who arrived in Canada tended to be "loyalist", that point would be irrelevant unless one could illustrate the link between loyalty to the British crown and settlement in a rural area.
	members.tripod.com /~gail25/irish2.htm (571 words)

	Irish Land Question — FactMonster.com
		The Irish Tenant Right League, established in 1850, demanded the “three F's”—fair rent, fixity of tenure, and freedom of sale.
		Land League - Land League: see Irish Land Question.
		Sir Horace Curzon Plunkett - Plunkett, Sir Horace Curzon, 1854–1932, Irish statesman and agricultural reformer.
	www.factmonster.com /ce6/history/A0825483.html (596 words)

	The Irish Democratic League of Great Britain - The Haslingden Davitt Branch (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Within Haslingden The Land League and the Irish Democratic League names are synonymous with the Irish club, either the IDL or The Land League, with The Land League being preferred.
		Michael Davitt founded the original Land League in 1879 and this organisation was fundamental in securing improved tenancy agreements for the Irish farmers.
		The Land League was outlawed in 1881 and finally nullified by Gladstone’s Government in 1882.
	www.thelandleague.org (286 words)

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		Irish monasteries formed; Irish monks play decisive role in preserving and restoring classical learning in Europe, as they establish monasteries from England to Italy 7th - 11th c.
		Gradually the monasteries are dissolved, and their lands used as rewards to loyal aristocrats.
		A BRIEF OVERVIEW OF IRISH HISTORY From the Civil War to the Present 1932-1948 de Velera assumes leadership of the government; immediately removes the oath of allegiance from the constitution.
	ireland.wlu.edu /lecture/Irish_History_timeline.doc (2061 words)

	Irish Lecture
		The Irish economy, already fragile and ill-managed, was devastated by the famine, particularly the rural, peasant classes in the west.
		The Great Famine, in addition to the economic and social devastation of the Irish population, increased in the Irish mind a deep-seated anger toward the entire system of British government in Ireland.
		, Irish proto-military groups such as the Fenians or Irish Republican Brotherhood are formed, led by James Stephens, alongside groups like the Irish Land League, led by Michael Davitt and seeking reform of the outrageously unequal distribution and ownership of land.
	ireland.wlu.edu /lecture/ch3_7.htm (231 words)

	Social Boycott
		The term "boycott" was coined in 1880 by the Irish Home Rule leader Charles Stewart Parnell to describe a campaign being waged against Captain Charles Cunningham Boycott by his Irish neighbors.
		The strategy quickly became a standard tactic used in the struggle against English landlords whose property titles were the result of conquest and sustained by legal privilege.
		But the Land League had vindicated the strategy of boycott in the minds of nineteenth century American libertarians.
	www.zetetics.com /mac/articles/socialboycott.html (1409 words)

	Olson: "I would be master still"
		The Irish language was undergoing a period of renewal,the Irish Literary Theatre was underway, and the fifty-year anniversary of the Great Famine all suggested a new life for Ireland.
		Questions concerning if and how Ireland should be independent were inexorably connected with ideas of who should own Irish land and how the island should be governed.
		At the same time, the Land League, in its demands for farmers to be able to buy the land that they farmed was a particularly powerful force in Ireland.
	www.thirdspace.ca /articles/olson.htm (3845 words)

	Strategies from the Past: Boycott, Part 1
		The term “boycott” was coined in 1880 by the Irish Home Rule leader Charles Stewart Parnell to describe the version of ostracism being used against a certain Captain Charles Cunningham Boycott by his Irish neighbors.
		Tucker lamented that the Irish Land League failed “because the peasants were acting, not intelligently in obedience to their wisdom, but blindly in obedience to leaders who betrayed them at the critical moment.”
		But the Land League had vindicated the strategy of boycott in the minds of 19th-century American libertarians.
	www.fff.org /freedom/0900f.asp (1088 words)

	Irish Echo Online - Arts
		The context for the campaign against Boycott was a severe agricultural crisis that spawned the nationalist movement known as the Land League.
		As the League put it in its Declaration of Principles: The land of Ireland belongs to the people all of Ireland, to be held and cultivated for the sustenance of those who God decreed to be the inhabitants thereof.
		This was especially true for those "land grabbers" who took over an evicted farmer's holding.
	www.irishecho.com /newspaper/story.cfm?id=13585 (698 words)

	Catholic Community Forum Discussion Groups - Our Lady & the Irish
		Began the land reforms that eventually allowed irish tenant farmers to purchase their land outright from british landlords rather than remaining in a somewhat feudal situation.
		It was a year when the Irish began to fight back in earnest against the British landlords.
		However, the Catholic Irish had more to suffer than Protestant Irish at the time because the An Gorta Beag (famine) affected their areas in western ireland the worst.
	www.catholic-forum.com /forums/showthread.php?t=9668 (604 words)

	Ireland Under Coercion
		Froude's arrival there, all the Irish servants of the friend with whom he was to stay had suddenly left the house, refusing to their employer the right to invite under his roof a guest not agreeable to them.
		Davitt formally organised the Irish National Land League, "to reduce rack-rents and facilitate the obtaining of the ownership of the land of Ireland by the occupiers," and Mr.
		Davitt in America, however, and the leaders of the most active Irish organisations there, came to the rescue, and as the two American parties were preparing their lines of battle for the Presidential conflict of 1880, Mr.
	www.quinnipiac.edu /other/abl/etext/irish/coercion/coercion.html (15676 words)

	Irish Land Question - ENCYCLOPEDIA - The History Channel UK
		Thereafter land purchase by the tenant became the predominant issue.
		The agitation of the United Irish League, under William O'Brien
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	AllRefer.com - Land League (British And Irish History) - Encyclopedia
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	Pictures of Ireland (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		PHOENIX PARK, DUBLIN-SCENE OF THE ASSASSINATION OF CAVENDISH AND BURKE.
		-This world-renowned tragedy-the first of its kind in Irish history-occurred in the afternoon of May 6, 1882, and was planned and executed by a secret society called the Invincibles, of which James Cary, who, with two others, subsequently turned informer, was the putative chief, although many believe him to have been a subordinate.
		The circumstances of the tragedy, in bried, were these: William E. Foster, nicknamed "Buckshot," Irish Secretary under Gladstone, undertook to crush the Irish Land League by coercive measures.
	www.quinnipiac.edu /other/abl/etext/irish/pictures/p68.html (91 words)

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