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In Ireland, a combination of tenant farmers and other, organized, with Charles Stewart Parnell as president, in 1879 with a view to the reduction of farm rents and a reconstruction of the land laws.

The Land League, of which Michael Davitt was the founder, originated in Mayo in August, and at a Dublin in October the organization was extended to all Ireland, with Parnell as president.

- Encyc. Brit.

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boycott Boycotter			The Ladies' Land League that Parnell (1852-1911) headed challenged Charles Stewart Parnell's Irish Parliamentary Party and Land League over land reform in the contexts of the 1840s Irish famine and nationalism. Petticoat rebellion; the Anna Parnell story by Reference & Research Book News At the start of a two-day trip, Mrs McAleese unveiled a plaque and attended an exhibition in honour of Land League founder Davitt in Hasling-den, Lancashire, where he lived from 1853 to 1867. Mary in tribute to Davitt by The Mirror (London, England) 00 Hardcover DA958 By the time he was in his early 30s, Davitt (1846-1906) was already known as the Father of the Land League and architect of the Land War of 1879-82. Michael Davitt; freelance radical and frondeur by Reference & Research Book News			lancinating Lancination Lancs Land land agent land area land army land bank Land blink Land boat land breeze land bridge Land chain land control operations land crab land cress land defences land development Land fish Land force land forces land girl land grab land grant Land ice Land League Land leech land line Land lubber land mass Land measure land mile land mine land mine warfare Land o' cakes Land of bondage Land of Enchantment Land of Lincoln land of milk and honey land of Nod Land of Opportunity Land of promise Land of Steady Habits Land of the leal Land of the Midnight Sun land office Land pike land rail land reform land resources Land scrip			Land Information Access Association Land Information and Computer Graphics Facility Land Information Assurance Group Land Information Council of Jamaica Land Information Management Land Information Management System Land Information New Zealand Land Information Search Land Information System Land Information System Architecture Land Information System Committee Land Information System Tasmania Land Information Warfare Activity Land Information Warfare Analysis Land Information-Warfare Enhancement Center Land Installed Marine Powered Energy Transformer Land Integrated Equipment for Tactical Systems Land Inventory Analysis Land Ladies Land Ladies Land Ladies Land Ladies Land Lady Land Lady Land Lady Land Lady Land law Land law Land law Land law Land League Land Leaguer Land Lease Land Lease Land Lease land leased Land leech Land Level Transfer Facility Land Leveling Electric Mast Land Leveling System Land Leveling System Display land line land line land line Land Lines Assembly Land Lines Of Communication Land lord Land lord Land lord Land lord Land Lords Land Lords Land Lords Land Lords Land Loss Prevention Project Land lubber Land mail Land mail Land mail Land Mail Art Objects Land Management Agency

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