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Showing 1 to 4 of 4 for “"Land war"”.
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Canon Ulick Bourke: cultural nationalism, popular politics and the Knock apparition
… on 21 August 1879. They usually mention that the Land War was in progress. Despite the fact Knock supposedly receives one and a half million visitors a year, until three decades ago no scholar had examined accounts of the apparition. Recent work has sought to define the Knock Apparition in light …
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The Ladies’ Land League and Irish-American Identity in the American South
<p>The Ladies’ Land League played an important role in the Land War in the 1880s and was a historically important instance of Irish women’s political action. Anna Parnell and others galvanized women in both Ireland and the United States over land reform issues. This paper examines the evidence of …
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An Exploration of the Context and Ecclesiastical Investigations of the Virgin's Reported Appearance in Knock, Ireland in 1879
… the Lamb of God reportedly appeared in Knock, Ireland. Ecclesiastical authorities of the Roman Catholic Church investigated this reported apparition in 1879 and again in 1936. The first chapter of this paper explores the processes by which the Church investigates alleged apparitions and considers …
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The burning o f Kilboy House, Nenagh, County Tipperary, 2 August 1922
During the revolutionary period 1919-23, landlords’ houses in Ireland came under physical attack from social and political revolutionaries. Landlords suffered outrage and intimidation because of their socio-political and economic backgrounds. Big houses such as Kilboy in County Tipperary were …