RMD98817–Irish Land League: In 1880 Parnell began campaign of social ostracism. Captain Boycott, agent for Lord Erne's Mayo estates, was one of the first victims. Boycotted butter in Cork market, May 1885.

RMPAB9KF–The saving of Captain Boycott's crops, 1880. Orangemen from County Cavan and County Monaghan harvesting the crops, protected by the 19th Royal Hussars, and the Royal Irish Constabulary during the isolation campaign by the Irish National Land League

RMHTMGFD–Irish Land League: In 1880 Parnell began campaign of social ostracism. Captain Boycott, agent for Lord Erne's Mayo estates, was one of the first victims. Boycott's crops being harvested by Orangemen volunteers protected by troops, 1880.

RM2CE1C12–Charles Stewart Parnell (1846-1891). Irish nationalist politician, leader of the Irish Parliamentary Party (1882-1891) and Home Rule League (1880-1882). Parnell's own newspaper, the 'United Ireland', attacked the Land Act and he was arrested on 13 October 1881, being imprisoned in Kilmainham gaol (Dublin). Gladstone's 1881 Land Act ignored certain other problems, including the plight of tenants who were in arrears with their rent, meaning they owed back rent. The leaders issued a 'no rent manifesto' from prison, encouraging tenants to continue avoiding the payment of rent to landlords until th

RM2AYWJ6W–British troops in the Upper Castle Yard in Dublin Castle, Ireland during the arrival of William Edward Forster, aka Buckshot Forster, (1818-1886), an English industrialist, philanthropist, Liberal Party statesman and a staunch advocate of lethal force against the Land League. On William Gladstone's return to office in 1880, he was made Chief Secretary for Ireland. On 24 January 1881, he introduced a Coercion Bill in the House of Commons, to deal with the growth of the Land League, and enabled the Irish government to arrest without trial persons 'reasonably suspected' of crime and conspiracy.

RM2B76C55–EVICTION IN COUNTRY KERRY, IRELAND, about 1880

RM2K63TG7–Scene inside a cottage in the west of Ireland, showing an Irish girl spinning while a pipe-smoking older woman watches a pot on the fire. Date: 1880

RMP7P2CX–Charles Stewart Parnell (1846-1891). Irish nationalist politician. Session of the Council of the Agrarian League presided over by Parnell in Dublin, Ireland, 1880. Engraving by Capuz.

RM2R2DAPN–The Irish Land League Trials in Dublin, the Traversers leaving the Court, 1881, Victorian 19th Century

RM2CF5WJT–. A short history of England and the British Empire. ce the settlement of the land question; they had alsoorganized a Home Rule party to work for the repeal of theAct of Union. When the Liberals came into power again in 594 GLADSTONE AND THE PROBLEM OF IRELAND 1880, Gladstone granted the demands of the Land League.The Irish land The Conservatives under the leadership of Lordproblem. Salisbury and Arthur James Balfour found a final settlement for the Irishland question by thepassage of a series ofland purchase acts,which have enabledmany thousands ofIrish peasants to buythe farms that theytille

RMD98812–Irish Land League: In 1880 Parnell began campaign of social ostracism. Captain Boycott, agent for Lord Erne's Mayo estates, was one of the first victims. Boycott's crops being harvested by Orangemen volunteers protected by troops, 1880.

RMHTMGJT–'Anti-Rent': Charles Stewart Parnell (1846-1891) Irish politician. Supporter of Home Rule and President of the Irish Land League. After cartoon in 'Vanity Fair', London, 1880.