A Murderer's Country: Joyce Country, Galway, During Ireland's Land War (1879-1882)

by Mary Lydon Simonsen

The Land War (1879-1882) was a time of great agitation in Ireland, much of it directed against Irish landlords and the British Crown. Violence associated with the land-reform movement, led by Michael Davitt and Charles Stewart Parnell, and the implementation of boycotting and its enforced compliance, became commonplace. A harbinger of the violence in Galway was the assassination of Lord Leitrim in County Donegal. But some of the worst outrages took...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0692910611
• ISBN13: 9780692910610
• Release Date: June 2017
• Publisher: Quail Creek Publishing, LLC
• Length: 204 Pages
• Weight: 0.81 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 0.5" x 6.0"