Land and Popular Politics in Ireland: County Mayo from the Plantation to the Land WarThis book analyses County Mayo in Ireland from the Elizabethan pacification of the county to the first stage of the Land War in the late nineteenth century. During those three centuries the county was transformed from being a remote, isolated, impoverished and hostile region of the country to being at the centre of Irish politics and integrated into an agrarian capitalist economy. The book is divided into two sections. The first contains an analysis of the county prior to the Great Famine, and provides the foundation for a core/periphery analysis of Mayo's economic development and its impact upon popular politics in the county. The second, employing a core/periphery analysis of the post-Famine economic and political transformation of the county, demonstrates that the structural changes that gave rise to the Land War occurred more rapidly in central Mayo than along its western coastline or eastern boundaries. This uneven development helps account for both the initial strength and rapid disintegration of the land movement in the county. |
Contents
The natural and historical setting | 13 |
Economy and society 16911846 | 37 |
PreFamine popular politics and rural protest | 74 |
The postFamine transformation of County Mayo | 101 |
Economy and society 18461877 | 103 |
PostFamine politics prior to the Land War | 170 |
The Land War in County Mayo | 197 |
The Wests Awake The early months of the Land War | 201 |
Tensions within the Land League in County Mayo 1880 | 266 |
The collapse of the land agitation 18801881 | 285 |
Appendices | 316 |
Occupations of suspected Fenians County Mayo as recorded in police files 186671 | 324 |
List of persons whose arrest is recommended under the Protection of Persons and Property Act 1881 County Mayo | 326 |
Explanation of categories and list of Land League meetings for Map 52 and Table 31 | 331 |
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30th Day 31st Day acres agrarian Agricultural Statistics arrested Ballina Ballinrobe barony Belmullet Bessborough Commission Bourke Castlebar Catholic cattle Census of Ireland Charles Stewart Parnell Claremorris clergy Connacht Connaught Ranger Connaught Telegraph County Mayo county's Davitt Day of December Devoy Dublin emigration Ended the 30th Ended the 31st evicted Fall of Feudalism families farm Fenian following the Famine Gaelic Galway graziers grazing History of Ireland Ibid Irish Land Irishtown James Daly John O'Connor Power Killala land agitation land meeting land movement land question Land War landlords League executive League's livestock London Lord Louden Lough Mask Mayo farmers Mayo's Minutes of Evidence O'GrĂ¡da organization parish parliamentary Parnell Parnell's percent periphery political population post-Famine potato Power priests protest Quarter Ended rent reported Return rural shopkeepers Sligo small farmers Social Special Commission Swinford T. W. Moody Telegraph or Connaught tenant farmers valuation West of Ireland Westport