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by matthewmacnamara
Fri Jul 01, 2022 4:01 pm
Forum: Clare Past
Topic: The Land League in Clare
Replies: 46
Views: 22607

Re: The Land League in Clare

A report in the Munster News of May 8, 1880 notes tension between the
Limerick and Clare Farmers' Club and the Land League. It says that
some members of the Club strongly dissent from the present action
of the League.
by matthewmacnamara
Tue Jun 28, 2022 1:50 pm
Forum: Clare Past
Topic: The Land League in Clare
Replies: 46
Views: 22607

Re: The Land League in Clare

The Clare Farmers' Club certainly played its part in the 1880 general election.
by matthewmacnamara
Mon Jun 27, 2022 12:05 pm
Forum: Clare Past
Topic: The Land League in Clare
Replies: 46
Views: 22607

Re: The Land League in Clare

Many thanks Sheila for such a comprehensive investigation.
One of the signatories of the riposte to the Lansdowne
estate agent was my great grand mother, a widow.
by matthewmacnamara
Sun Jun 19, 2022 1:47 pm
Forum: Clare Past
Topic: The Land League in Clare
Replies: 46
Views: 22607

Re: The Land League in Clare

This was the riposte of the Limerick North Liberties [adjacent to Meelick] tenants. Limerick, 9th December, 1880 Sir- We the undersigned tenants of the Marquis of Lansdowne beg to reply, through the columns of your Journal, to a letter of Mr Frank of Lower Fitzwilliam-street, Dublin, which appeared ...
by matthewmacnamara
Sun Jun 19, 2022 1:38 pm
Forum: Clare Past
Topic: The Land League in Clare
Replies: 46
Views: 22607

Re: The Land League in Clare

Here is a letter published in the Freeman's Journal in November 1880 from Lord Lansdowne's agent in reaction to the foundation of a branch of the Land League in Limerick city. He makes the case that rents have remained stable over decades in a context of increased prices for farm produce. Sir - The ...
by matthewmacnamara
Sat Jun 18, 2022 1:25 pm
Forum: Clare Past
Topic: The Land League in Clare
Replies: 46
Views: 22607

Re: The Land League in Clare

As part of my effort to trace the evolution of Farmers' Clubs into branches of the Land League, I have been systematically perusing the Limerick published Munster News for 1879. The first use of the term the Irish National Land League that I found is a report of a meeting of its executive in Dublin ...
by matthewmacnamara
Fri Jun 17, 2022 2:02 pm
Forum: Clare Past
Topic: The Land League in Clare
Replies: 46
Views: 22607

Re: The Land League in Clare

Thank you Sheila. Pre Land League, the Limerick press frequently mentions Farmers' Clubs. One was called the Limerick and Clare Farmers' Club, the Clare element coming from adjacent to Limerick south east Clare [e. g. Parteen]. I am curious as to what they actually achieved before the Land League ca...
by matthewmacnamara
Wed Jun 15, 2022 1:08 pm
Forum: Clare Past
Topic: The Land League in Clare
Replies: 46
Views: 22607

Re: The Land League in Clare

In October 1879 it is still the CLARE FARMERS ' CLUB, chaired by Father Whyte, PP Milltown. At the end of
September they held a demonstration in Ennis attended by ten thousand people.
by matthewmacnamara
Sun Jun 12, 2022 1:48 pm
Forum: Clare Past
Topic: The Land League in Clare
Replies: 46
Views: 22607

Re: The Land League in Clare

I should have written PRAYERS FOR FINE WEATHER in the summer of 1879
by matthewmacnamara
Sun Jun 12, 2022 1:01 pm
Forum: Clare Past
Topic: The Land League in Clare
Replies: 46
Views: 22607

Re: The Land League in Clare

Thanks for so much.
One thing that I noticed was the ease with which members of the pre Land League farmers' clubs
[where one found very comfortable farmers exclusively] passed into leadership roles in
the emerging Land League.
The summer of 1879 saw very bad weather, prayers for rain etc.
by matthewmacnamara
Sat Jun 11, 2022 3:33 pm
Forum: Clare Past
Topic: The Land League in Clare
Replies: 46
Views: 22607

The Land League in Clare

The Land League was founded in Mayo in 1879. By 1880 it had spread to the North Liberties of Limerick,
adjacent to south east Clare. Would anyone know when the first branches appeared in Clare? and where
in the county?
by matthewmacnamara
Mon May 09, 2022 7:06 pm
Forum: Clare Past
Topic: a submarine near killadysert
Replies: 1
Views: 1448

a submarine near killadysert

During world war 2 an intelligence report made its way to the UK authorities
that a submarine [presumably German] had been seen in the Shannon somewhere
off Killadysert. I myself once spoke to a Canon Island man who assured me that
he had seen it. Would anyone know something about this?
by matthewmacnamara
Thu Oct 15, 2020 1:17 pm
Forum: Clare Past
Topic: Meelick in 1880
Replies: 0
Views: 2434

Meelick in 1880

 The winter of 1879/ 1880 saw much distress in Ireland. One relief measure was a distribution of seed to small farmers by the Boards of Guardians. In March 1880, a distribution of seed under the Agricultural Seeds Loan Act, to Meelick and North Liberties small farmers took place at the Limerick wor...
by matthewmacnamara
Thu Sep 03, 2020 11:46 am
Forum: Clare Past
Topic: The Harvard Irish Survey
Replies: 0
Views: 2711

The Harvard Irish Survey

In 1940 the publishers of this seminal work on Clare topics asked An Taoiseach,
Mr de Valera, to preface the volume. He did not appreciate some erotic details contained
in the proposed book, and declined the request.
A recent issue of History Ireland has an article about the incident.
by matthewmacnamara
Fri Jul 31, 2020 12:28 pm
Forum: Clare Past
Topic: Festival of Lunasa
Replies: 3
Views: 3532

Festival of Lunasa

Would any person know of places in Clare where people celebrated the Festival of Lunasa?
I never heard of it in Meelick,
a place from which the Irish language disappeared earlier than elsewhere.