Changing Land: Diaspora Activism and the Irish Land War (The Glucksman Irish Diaspora Series, 2)

**How diaspora activism in the Irish land movement intersected with wider radical and reform causes** The Irish Land War represented a turning point in modern Irish history, a social revolution that was part of a broader ideological moment when established ideas of property and land ownership were fundamentally challenged. The Land War was striking in its internationalism, and was spurred by links between different emigrant locations and an awareness of how the Land League’s demands to lower rents, end evictions, and abolish “landlordism” in Ireland connected with wider radical and reform causes. __Changing Land__ offers a new and original study of Irish emigrants’ activism in the United States, Argentina, Scotland, and England and their multifaceted relationships with Ireland. Niall Whelehan brings unfamiliar figures to the surface and recovers the voices of women and men who have been on the margins of, or entirely missing from, existing accounts. Retracing their transnational lives reveals new layers of radical circuitry between Ireland and disparate international locations, and demonstrates how the land movement overlapped with different types of oppositional politics from moderate reform to feminism to revolutionary anarchism. By including Argentina, which was home to the largest Irish community outside the English-speaking world, this book addresses the neglect of developments in non-Anglophone places in studies of the “Irish world.” Changing Land presents a powerful addition to our understanding of the history of modern Ireland and the Irish diaspora, migration, and the history of transnational radicalism.

How diaspora activism in the Irish land movementintersected with wider radical and reform causes The IrishLand War represented a turning point in modern Irish history, asocial revolution that was part of a broader ideological momentwhen established ideas of property and land ownership werefundamentally challenged. The Land War was striking in itsinternationalism, and was spurred by links between differentemigrant locations and an awareness of how the Land League'sdemands to lower rents, end evictions, and abolish "landlordism" inIreland connected with wider radical and reform causes.Changing Land offers a new and original study of Irishemigrants' activism in the United States, Argentina, Scotland, andEngland and their multifaceted relationships with Ireland. NiallWhelehan brings unfamiliar figures to the surface and recovers thevoices of women and men who have been on the margins of, orentirely missing from, existing accounts. Retracing theirtransnational lives reveals new layers of radical circuitry betweenIreland and disparate international locations, and demonstrates howthe land movement overlapped with different types of oppositionalpolitics from moderate reform to feminism to revolutionaryanarchism. By including Argentina, which was home to the largestIrish community outside the English-speaking world, this bookaddresses the neglect of developments in non-Anglophone places instudies of the "Irish world." Changing Land presents a powerfuladdition to our understanding of the history of modern Ireland andthe Irish diaspora, migration, and the history of transnationalradicalism.

The Irish Land War represented a turning point in modern Irish history, a social revolution that was part of a broader ideological moment when established ideas of property and land ownership were fundamentally challenged. The Land War was striking in its internationalism, and was spurred by links between different emigrant locations and an awareness of how the Land League's demands to lower rents, end evictions, and abolish "landlordism" in Ireland connected with wider radical and reform causes. 0Changing Land offers a new and original study of Irish emigrants' activism in the United States, Argentina, Scotland, and England and their multifaceted relationships with Ireland. Niall Whelehan brings unfamiliar figures to the surface and recovers the voices of women and men who have been on the margins of, or entirely missing from, existing accounts. Retracing their transnational lives reveals new layers of radical circuitry between Ireland and disparate international locations, and demonstrates how the land movement overlapped with different types of oppositional politics from moderate reform to feminism to revolutionary anarchism. By including Argentina, which was home to the largest Irish community outside the English-speaking world, this book addresses the neglect of developments in non-Anglophone places in studies of the "Irish world." Changing Land presents a powerful addition to our understanding of the history of modern Ireland and the Irish diaspora, migration, and the history of transnational radicalism The Irish Land War represented a turning point in modern Irish history, a social revolution that was part of a broader ideological moment when established ideas of property and land ownership were fundamentally challenged. The Land War was striking in its internationalism, and was spurred by links between different emigrant locations and an awareness of how the Land League's demands to lower rents, end evictions, and abolish 'landlordism' in Ireland connected with wider radical and reform causes. This book offers a new and original study of Irish emigrants' activism in the United States, Argentina, Scotland, and England and their multifaceted relationships with Ireland. Niall Whelehan brings unfamiliar figures to the surface and recovers the voices of women and men who have been on the margins of, or entirely missing from, existing accounts Peter O'Leary, land nationalisation and visitors during the land war -- Marguerite Moore : land reform, feminism and nationalism -- Jute, class and Catholicism : the Ladies' Land League in Dundee, Scotland -- John Creaghe, The southern cross and land wars in Argentina -- Thomas Ainge Devyr and the 'Great truth' "Changing Land explores how the Irish Land War inspired multifaceted activism among Irish emigrants in the United States, Argentina, Scotland and England, and how diaspora activism intersected with transnational radical and reform causes"-- Provided by publisher