The case of the Craughwell Prisoners during the Land War in Co. Galway, 1879–85

Loughrea, that den of infamy

The Land War in County Galway, 1879–82

Pat Finnegan

During the Land War of 1879–82, Galway was regarded as 'dangerously disturbed' because of the large number of agrarian incidents reported. These included murder…

Michael Davitt

Freelance radical and frondeur

Laurence Marley

Michael Davitt (1846–1906) is popularly known as the founder of the Irish National Land League and as the architect of the Land War of 1879–82. However, the end…

The murders at Wildgoose Lodge

Agrarian crime and punishment in pre-Famine Ireland

Terence Dooley

On the night of 29-30 October 1816 eight people were murdered by burning to death in a house in a remote part of County Louth, known locally as Wildgoose Lodge.…

East Galway agrarian agitation and the burning of Ballydugan House, 1922

Ann O'Riordan

Part of the Maynooth Studies in Local History.

This book is based on the burning of Ballydugan house in 1922, a middle-sized country house on a 1,500-acre esta…