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Boycott Pressure
Read Article: Boycott PressureBoycotting and organised public pressure are being employed in some Irish districts against landlords, graziers and tenants whose conduct is considered hostile to the land campaign. The methods range from public condemnation and refusal of ordinary dealings to the withdrawal of labour, trade and social contact. Supporters describe such action as a peaceful means of…
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Land Dominates
Read Article: Land DominatesThe land question remains the dominant economic and social issue across rural Ireland, shaping political organisation, family security and relations between landlords and tenant farmers. In County Limerick, holdings vary greatly in quality and size, while rents, arrears, grazing land and the prospect of tenant purchase remain constant subjects of discussion. Earlier Land Acts granted…
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Networks Endure
Read Article: Networks EndureThe establishment of Cumann na mBan has revealed how strongly the women’s nationalist networks created during Queen Victoria’s visit in 1900 have endured. Fourteen years ago, Maud Gonne and her associates organised resistance to the royal ceremonies, arranged an alternative patriotic celebration for children and founded Inghinidhe na hÉireann. Those efforts brought women together as…
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Daughters Founded
Read Article: Daughters FoundedInghinidhe na hÉireann, translated as the Daughters of Ireland, has been established in Dublin under the leadership of Maud Gonne. The women’s nationalist organisation emerged from a meeting held in the rooms of the Celtic Literary Society on Easter Sunday, where participants discussed practical opposition to Queen Victoria’s visit and its accompanying children’s celebrations. The…
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Royal Residence
Read Article: Royal ResidenceQueen Victoria has taken up residence at the Viceregal Lodge in Phoenix Park following her arrival at Kingstown and ceremonial journey through Dublin. The house, normally occupied by the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, will serve as the monarch’s principal residence throughout her final Irish visit. Situated within the extensive parklands west of the capital, the…
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Wyndham Appointed
Read Article: Wyndham AppointedGeorge Wyndham has been appointed Chief Secretary for Ireland in succession to Gerald Balfour, placing a younger Conservative minister in charge of Irish administration at a moment of renewed nationalist organisation and growing agitation over the land. His appointment will be watched closely throughout Limerick city and county, where tenant ownership, congested holdings, rural poverty…
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Home Rule Deferred
Read Article: Home Rule DeferredThe opening of the new Parliament has confirmed that Home Rule remains outside the immediate programme of the government, despite the strong electoral recovery of John Redmond’s reunited Irish Parliamentary Party. Nationalists returned seventy-seven members from Ireland’s 103 constituencies, giving the demand for an Irish legislature a commanding parliamentary voice. Yet the administration of Lord…
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British Absence
Read Article: British AbsenceThe completed general election has again demonstrated the weakness of the principal British political parties throughout nationalist Ireland. John Redmond’s reunited Irish Parliamentary Party has taken seventy-seven of Ireland’s 103 seats, while candidates standing directly for the British Liberal and Conservative parties made little impression across the south, west and much of the midlands. In…
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Unity Fractures
Read Article: Unity FracturesThe completion of the general election has shown that the reunion of Irish parliamentary nationalism remains incomplete. Although John Redmond’s Irish Parliamentary Party has secured the overwhelming majority of nationalist seats, six supporters of Timothy Michael Healy have been returned outside the disciplined party organisation. The result will attract close attention among nationalists in Limerick…
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Redmond Returned
Read Article: Redmond ReturnedJohn Redmond has retained Waterford City in the general election, reinforcing his authority as chairman of the reunited Irish Parliamentary Party and strengthening his claim to speak for constitutional nationalism throughout Ireland. The result will be closely observed in Limerick, where nationalist supporters are judging whether reunion has truly ended the divisions that followed the…
