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School: Rathnure (C.) (roll number 12480)

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Rathnure Upper, Co. Wexford
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Cáit Ní Bholguidhir
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0900, Page 332

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  1. Incidents of the Land War (continued)

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    The landlords were rack-renting the tenants, and when the farmer was unable to pay the exorbitant rent that the landlord tried to extract from him he was evicted.
    About sixty years ago Michael Davitt who began the Land War founded the great Land League for the redress of the many wrongs of the Irish tenant farmers. The Land League spread like wildfire through every district in Ireland.
    Charles Stewart Parnell joined Michael Davitt in the agitation, as well as other Irish members of Parliament.
    There were several meetings held here, in Rathnure, at the Chapel Gate, on Sundays after Mass. There were speeches made by the leading farmers in the district Peter Whelan, James Forrestal, Richard Forrestal, John and Daniel Quigley, James
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    History Edit
    Language
    English
    Informant
    Patrick Bolger
    Relation
    Parent
    Gender
    Male
    Occupation
    Principal
    Address
    Rathnure Upper, Co. Wexford