Pery Foundations
The Pery family’s rise in Limerick began not with the Georgian streets that later carried...
Limerick history
Creamery Rivalry
Local disputes are arising between co-operative creameries owned by milk suppliers and privately operated concerns...
Creamery Contest
Agricultural co-operation is challenging the private commercial control long exercised over Irish butter production and...
Farming Progress
The Department of Agriculture and Technical Instruction is promoting improved farming methods, livestock breeding, dairying...
Farming Department
The newly established Department of Agriculture and Technical Instruction for Ireland has begun assuming responsibility...
Harvest Journeys
Seasonal migration remains essential to many small farming and labouring households across western Ireland and...
Estates Reorganised
The Congested Districts Board is continuing its efforts to purchase and reorganise estates in the...
Western Hardship
Congestion, fragmented holdings and poor soil continue to govern the lives of thousands of families...
Rural Unrest
Agrarian agitation has become especially influential across Connacht and parts of Munster, where tenant farmers,...
Purchase Delayed
Tenant purchase continues under the existing Irish Land Acts, allowing some farmers to replace rent...
Tenants Restored
Evicted tenants remain at the centre of Ireland’s land agitation, with nationalist representatives demanding that...
Boycott Pressure
Boycotting and organised public pressure are being employed in some Irish districts against landlords, graziers...
Land Grabbers
The hostile term “land grabber” continues to be directed against tenants who enter farms from...
Holdings Enlarged
Campaigners are demanding that uneconomic smallholdings be enlarged through the redistribution of extensive grazing land....
Grazing Challenged
The United Irish League is expanding its campaign against large grazing farms and the concentration...
Land Dominates
The land question remains the dominant economic and social issue across rural Ireland, shaping political...
Networks Endure
The establishment of Cumann na mBan has revealed how strongly the women’s nationalist networks created...
Women Protest
Women have assumed visible roles in the nationalist opposition surrounding Queen Victoria’s arrival in Dublin,...
Cold Continuation
January came into Limerick without ceremony for most of the people who had to live...
Women Participate
Inghinidhe na hÉireann has declared that women must take an active part in Ireland’s political...
Children Fed
Inghinidhe na hÉireann has linked its demand for national independence with practical concern for poor...
Culture Revived
Inghinidhe na hÉireann has placed the Irish language, national culture and economic self-reliance at the...
Independence Demanded
Inghinidhe na hÉireann has declared that the restoration of an Irish legislature under Home Rule...
Women Organise
The establishment of Inghinidhe na hÉireann has provided women with a distinct and independent place...
Daughters Founded
Inghinidhe na hÉireann, translated as the Daughters of Ireland, has been established in Dublin under...
Hidden Discontent
Advanced nationalists have rejected claims that Queen Victoria’s public reception demonstrates widespread Irish loyalty, arguing...
Loyal Ireland
Unionist opinion has interpreted the enthusiastic public welcome given to Queen Victoria as convincing evidence...
Divided Allegiance
Queen Victoria’s final visit has intensified argument across Ireland over loyalty, national identity and the...
Patriotic Children
Nationalist women have organised a vast Patriotic Children’s Treat in Dublin as a direct challenge...
Nationalist Defiance
Maud Gonne and other advanced nationalists have organised determined opposition to Queen Victoria’s visit, rejecting...
Pageantry Challenged
Nationalist newspapers have criticised Queen Victoria’s visit as an elaborate imperial spectacle staged while poverty,...
Nationalist Resistance
Nationalist-controlled authorities and public representatives in several districts have resisted demands that they participate fully...
Loyal Addresses
Loyal addresses have been presented to Queen Victoria by municipal representatives and public institutions during...
Military Review
Queen Victoria has reviewed troops drawn from the Dublin garrison and the Curragh Camp during...
Children Gather
A vast children’s celebration has been held in Phoenix Park as part of Queen Victoria’s...
Royal Residence
Queen Victoria has taken up residence at the Viceregal Lodge in Phoenix Park following her...
Unionist Display
Dublin Castle and unionist organisations have used Queen Victoria’s arrival to affirm Ireland’s constitutional place...
Cheering Crowds
Large crowds have lined the route of Queen Victoria’s procession from Kingstown towards Dublin, creating...
Royal Dublin
Queen Victoria arrived in Ireland today for what will become the final Irish visit of...