‘Cattle drivers, marauders, terrorists and hooligans’

The agrarian movement of 1920. BY TERRY DUNNE  An t-Óglách, the IRA newsletter, starkly pronounced on 1 May 1920: ‘The Irish Republican Army has found it necessary to take drastic steps for the enforcement of law and order’, and went on to specify the problem of ‘land-greed’ in Kerry. In Watchword of Labour, the newspaper ... Read more

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