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The Material for Victory: Grassroots memoir of 19th-century democratic political practice behind Irish land ownership

Andrew J Kettle was a key figure in the Land War and his writings illuminate the how systemic socio-economic change was achieved by time of Free State

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Letters: Gandhi was right – human greed for territory is at the centre of global conflict

The conflict in Gaza shows no signs of abating. Sadly, it is only increasing in scale and intensity.

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A moral right to the land

A case can be made for the years 1879, 1880 and 1881 being more consequential than any others since in the making of modern Ireland. In 1879, the I.

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Irish fought off police trying to evict them during Land War

Tenants protected their homes with thorny shrubs, boiling water and cow dung to try and prevent their evictions by police. These photographs of post-Famine evictions show how merciless the British landlords were.

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The wild tale of the Hugh Mahon byelection lost by the opposition

Aston's result was the second time since 1920 that government has won a seat off the opposition in a byelection. What happened the first time?

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