The Tale of a Great Sham - Softcover

Parnell, Anna

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1910820598 ISBN 13: 9781910820599

Verlag: University College Dublin Press, 2021

Inhaltsangabe

In late-nineteenth century Ireland, an agrarian revolution was brewing, spearheaded by the 1879 formation of the National Land League, who sought to a pathway for impoverished tenant farmers to own the land they worked. The ideas of the all-male organization were so incendiary for their time that, in 1881, its leaders created the Ladies Land League so 'that the women might carry on the work after the men were imprisoned' and appointed Anna Parnell'sister of Land League president Charles Stewart Parnell'as its head.
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Tale of a Great Sham is Anna Parnell's account of the work of the Ladies Land League, as well as a detailed analysis of what she saw as the shortcomings of the National Land League's executive members. Anna was a committed radical and remained one even after her brother Charles had dropped his most progressive views in favor of what she saw as a watered-down compromise'the so-called 'great sham' of the Kilmainham Treaty, which did little to alleviate the injustices suffered by tenant farmers. Featuring an introduction from the renowned feminist historian Margaret Ward, Tales of a Great Sham is a comprehensive study of an important group overlooked for too long in the chronicles of Ireland's radical past.
 

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Dana Hearne is a lecturer at Concordia University in Montreal.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: University College Dublin Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2021
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1910820598
• ISBN 13: 9781910820599
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 232
• Herausgeber: Hearne Dana Dr.
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