Author: Cashman, D. B.
Title: The Life of Michael Davitt, Founder of the National Land League: To Which Is Added, the Secret History of the Land League, by Michael Davitt.
Description: London / [Glasgow] R. & T. Washbourne / Cameron & Ferguson, 1895. Hardback small (18.6 x 12.7 cm), no jacket, very good condition, recased original green cloth cover retaining endpapers (gilt brief spine title), very good condition, edges lightly speckled & foxed, title page base repaired, minor edgewear. 256 pp. Biography of the Irish social campaigner and nationalist politician, Michael Davitt (1846-1906), founder of the Irish National Land League. He joined the Irish Republican Brotherhood (IRB), a Fenian organization in Ireland. He organised arms smuggling to Ireland, but was arrested and imprisoned by the English, but was released on a ticket-of-leave after serving seven years. He rejoined the IRB, where he held that the common people of Ireland could not improve their lot without ownership of their land. [No date, but 1882 (latest internal date) or later, up to 1920. Originally edition published 1876 by Cameron & Ferguson, Glasgow.]

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