Land and popular politics in Ireland : County Mayo from the Plantation to the Land War /
This book analyses County Mayo in Ireland from the Elizabethan pacification of the county to the first stage of the Land War in the late nineteenth century. During those three centuries the county was transformed from being a remote, isolated, impoverished and hostile region of the country to being...
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Cambridge :
Cambridge University Press,
1994.
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Table of Contents:
- pt. 1. County Mayo Prior to the Famine. 1. The natural and historical setting. 2. Economy and society, 1691-1846. 3. Pre-Famine popular politics and rural protest
- pt. 2. The Post-Famine Transformation of County Mayo. 4. Economy and society, 1846-1877. 5. Post-Famine politics prior to the Land War
- pt. 3. The Land War in County Mayo. 6. The West's Awake! The early months of the Land War. 7. The centralization of the agitation, June 1879-April 1880. 8. Tensions within the Land League in County Mayo, 1880. 9. The collapse of the land agitation, 1880-1881
- App. 1 Mayo evictions: explanation of calculations and sources for Table 4.1 and Figure 4.1
- App. 2 Occupations of suspected Fenians, County Mayo, as recorded in police files, 1866-71
- App. 3 List of persons whose arrest is recommended under the Protection of Persons and Property Act, 1881, County Mayo
- App. 4 Explanation of categories and list of Land League meetings for Map 5.2 and Table 3.1.
