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	Land League - Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		'In the beginning was the land': the appropriation of religious themes in political discourses in Zimbabwe.
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		Tolstoy's Georgist spiritual political economy (1897-1910): anarchism and land reform.(Special Issue: Commemorating the 100th Anniversary of the Death of Henry George)
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-X-LandLeag.html (537 words)

	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.
		The protests included rent strikes and land occupations (which came to be known as land raids) by crofters, cottars and squatters.
	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)

	Ireland's OWN: History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		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)

	The Irish Democratic League of Great Britain - The Haslingden Davitt Branch (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		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)

	AllRefer.com - 1Up Info > Irish Land Question (British And Irish History)
		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 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.
		By 1921 two thirds of the land in Ireland had become the property of Irish tenants, and a compulsory law transferred the remaining portions soon after the establishment (1922) of the Irish Free State.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/I/IrishLan.html (700 words)

	Units: L
		Similarly, a land league is equal to 3 statute miles (5280 yards or 4828.03 meters) as distinguished from 3 nautical miles.
		If the land is dry, a langdo is about 1/7 hectare or 1/3 acre; for a wet paddy field the langdo is about 1/10 hectare or 1/4 acre.
		At sea, the league was most often equal to 3 nautical miles, which is 1/20 degree [2], 3.45 statute miles, or exactly 5556 meters.
	www.unc.edu /~rowlett/units/dictL.html (4272 words)

	Speech by
		The Chairman proposed the toast of the "Land League".
		And away in the far off land of America they thought of the time when their happy homes were levelled, and when they had to stop out day and night on the wintery road with no covering but the canopy of heaven (applause).
		It was said that the farmers of Limerick county asked the Land Commissioners to declare in favour of fixity of tenure.
	www.limerick.com /theroyal/thebook/speeches/parnell.html (3757 words)

	mrn6 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		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.
		The Land league, supported by many priests, told the farmers to think of the needs of their family before paying rents to the landlords.
		The Land League called for injunctions that would not allow landlords to rent land that was involved in an eviction.
	users.ev1.net /~gpmoran/mrn6.htm (1486 words)

	The Central Maryland Heritage League Land Trust
		In the intervening years the league has saved and protected significant acreage which has now become part of what is the South Mountain State Battlefield.
		Although the protection of the South Mountain State Battlefield is one of our prime goals, we have also become involved in the education of both children and adults as to the many aspects of our cultural and natural heritage in the Middletown Valley and throughout Central Maryland.
		This land was the scene of important events in the French and Indian War.
	www.cmhl.org (298 words)

	Desmond's Concise History of Ireland
		Centuries earlier, the Leinstermen had lost their land to the Ui Neill and Eoganachti, but they were constantly plotting to regain their land and power.
		The feudal land system placed the king at the pinnacle of a pyramid, and peasants at the base, with land as the key to power, status and affluence.
		For the Crown, Plantations would deprive dissident Irish lords of the land that was their only real source of power; and further, there would be established within Ireland a loyal non-Irish minority which would served as an unpaid police force to keep dissident Irish in check.
	members.tripod.com /~JerryDesmond/index-2.html (19582 words)

	Irish Land League -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		The Irish Land League was an (The Celtic language of Ireland) Irish political organization of the late (Click link for more info and facts about 19th century) 19th century which aimed to help poor tenant famers.
		These organistions were set up due to the excessive rents being demanded by (A landowner who leases to others) landlords all over Ireland but especially in Mayo and surrounding counties.
		the vast majority of Irish land was, after the final passing of the Labourers (Ireland) Acts of 1906 and 1911, back in Irish hands.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/i/ir/irish_land_league.htm (287 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.
		But there is another and a higher interest involved in the drama of this Commission now rapidly drawing to a close; an interest far surpassing in importance, and the possible consequences of your lordships’ judgment, anything else comprised in this investigation.
	www.bartleby.com /268/6/22.html (1023 words)

	Red Adam Zumwalt Sr.
		Land grant records indicated that Adam Zumwalt, married with nine persons (seven children, two males), arrived in the DeWitt Colony 20 May 1829 and was granted a league and labor of land on 28 Jan 1830.
		His land was between tracts granted to Green DeWitt, Samuel Highsmith, James Gibson and Esther Berry on the west, David Burket, Charles Braches and Green DeWitt on the east and Francis Berry, John Oliver and Green DeWitt to the south.
		On 2 Oct 1843, he transferred 329 acres of his headright league on the east bank of the San Marcos to daughter Mahala Crawford, the part of the league, which was bounded on the south by the 320 acres deeded to daughter Caroline Burnham.
	www.tamu.edu /ccbn/dewitt/redadam.htm (4195 words)

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