Michael Davitt: Freelance Radical and Frondeur

By Laurence Marley

Michael Davitt (1846-1906) is popularly known as the founder of the Irish National Land League and as the architect of the agrarian campaign of 1879-82. However, while the Land War was pivotal in Irish history, Davitt's lesser-known freelance political career after 1882, during which he engaged with a diverse range of issues and causes from the Boer War to Zionism, reveals a much more complex and, at times, contradictory political figure than that previously represented in Irish historiography. This book - now in paperback - is the first sustained study of Davitt's political career in its totality and views him in a broad political context of labor activism and international radicalism.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1846822653
• ISBN13: 9781846822650
• Release Date: June 2010
• Publisher: Four Courts Press
• Length: 314 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.1"