The Irish Land League & Captain Boycott 

The fact that Charles Stewart Parnell was prepared to throw in his lot with Davitt’s land movement showed him in a new light. He was now able to play the role of popular orator and to make deep impact upon the minds and [...]

Farmers, Landlords & Westminster Politics

Irish Land Reform & Home-Rule 1870 – 1891

Isaac Butt (1815-79) the son of a Church of Ireland clergyman became converted to the Irish national cause after witnessing the terrible sufferings of the famine victims. His earlier education was at Midleton College, Co. Cork. After Trinity University he became [...]

CORK BUTTER MARKET: In early decades of the eighteenth century, butter made in many counties in Munster was being exported through the port of Cork through to an extensive wide network of countries. At that stage it had become one of the most important shipping ports in the world. By 1774, Cork controlled as [...]