An edition of The life of Michael Davitt
(1881)
The life of Michael Davitt
founder of the National Land League
by D. B. Cashman
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Biography, History, Irish National Land League, Land League (Ireland), Politics and government, RevolutionariesPeople
Michael Davitt (1846-1906)Places
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The Life of Michael Davitt: With a History of the Rise and Development of the Irish National Land League
2018-01-12, Forgotten Books
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The life of Michael Davitt: with a history of the rise and development of the Irish National Land League
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Table of Contents
CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION.
A Brief History of British Tyranny in Ireland, from the Invasion in 1170 to the Act of Union in 1800, with an Account of the Penal Enactments in the Different Reigns, 7-12
CHAPTER I.
The Great Land Agitation — Michael DaVitt again in a Convict's Garb — Inallfail 13-15
CHAPTER II.
Michael DaVitt — His Early Life-Eviction from his Fans Home in Mayo — Emigration, 16-19
CHAPTER III.
Davitt as a literary Man — His Arrest, Trial, and Prison Sufferings, 20-29
CHAPTER IV.
From Milibaak to Dartmoor — Six Yean sad Six Months of Agony, 30-42
CHAPTER V.
Released on Ticket-of-Leave — Grand Reception in Dublin — Sergeant McCarthy's Death — Davitt visits Mayo — His First Lecture in England, 43-53
CHAPTER VI.
Davitt's First Visit to America — Seed of the Laud League Sown by Advanced Nationalists — The New Doctrine Expounded by Davitt — A National Platform Proposed, 54-70
CHAPTER VII.
Why the Fanners were not Fenians — Radical Revolutionists and the Land Question — The "New Departure" — The Abolition of Landlordism, 71-72
CHAPTER VIII.
How Irish Tenant-Farmers are Ground Down by the Landlords — Why the Extremists should Aid the Land Agitation — The Law of Primogeniture Explained — The Ancient Irish Law of Gavel — Statistics relating to Land and Landlords, 73-82
CHAPTER IX.
Davitt's Return to Ireland — The Agitation begun in Mayo — Death of Isaac Butt — Pronouncements by the Catholic Clergy — Famine Clouds appear on the Horizon — Archbishop MacHale Condemns the Leaders of the Agitation — Michael Davitt's Reply, 83-96
CHAPTER X.
The Landlords Refuse to Lower the Rents — The Agitators Demand the Abolition of Landlordism — Repeal of the Irish Convention Act — The First National Convention held in Mayo to form a — Appeal to Irish — Americans — Manifesto of the Trustees of the Irish National Fund, 97-167
CHAPTER XI.
The Irish National Land League Formed in Dublin — The Distress Increasing — Irish Members Invoke Government Aid — Davitt Arrested — Lodged in Sligo Jail — On to Balia Committed for Trial — Parnell to Chicago — Davitt's Lecture in England, 108-120
CHAPTER XII.
Parnell and Dillon in New York — Great Meeting in Madison Square Garden — Parnell Addresses Congress — The Famine in Ireland — How the Landlords Acted — The Relief Bill — Land Meeting on the spot where Davitt was born, 121-129
CHAPTER XIII.
The National Land League Started in America — Davitt again visits the United States — First Land League Convention in New York — America's Aid During the Famine — The Compensation for Disturbance Bill Rejected — Evictions — Davitt in San Francisco — The Ladies' Land League begun — Davitt Leaves for Ireland — Boycotting Boycott — The State Trials — The Coercion Act in Force, 130-144
CHAPTER XIV.
Davitt Arrested — Again in a Convict's Garb — Portland Prison Described — The Ticket-of-Leave — The News in the House of Commons — Expulsion of Thirty-four Members — The National Land League Convention — No Peace in Ireland while Davitt is in a Convict's Cell, 145-155
CHAPTER XV.
The Land League Proposal — Addresses Delivered at Manchester and Liverpool, 156-185
CHAPTER XVI.
Mr Davitt on Liberty — The Contrasts between American Freedom and Irish Degradation during the Past Century vividly Portrayed, 186-192
CHAPTER XVII.
The Story of the Land War by Michael Davitt — The Origin, History, and Objects of the Land League — The Record of Landlordism — What the People of Ireland are working for — The Secret History of the Land League — Why there is a Land Question at all, 193-253
CHAPTER XVIII.
Mr Davitt's Proposals for the Formation of the National Land and Industrial Union of Ireland, 254-256
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