Labourers Organise
Agricultural labourers throughout County Limerick and the wider Munster countryside continue to campaign for better cottages, fairer wages and access to small plots of land. Their position remains distinct from that of tenant farmers seeking ownership of the farms they occupy. Labourers frequently possess neither secure employment nor property, depending instead upon seasonal hiring, daily wages and accommodation controlled by farmers or landlords. Public meetings increasingly insist that any settlement of the Irish land question must include the men and women whose labour sustains agriculture but who remain among the countryside’s poorest inhabitants.