Available from various podcast platforms and on Youtube and hosted by Terry Dunne.
This first episode is on what happened when the First World War hit Irish farms and Irish kitchen tables, and we'll be looking at the tillage movement of 1918 – a time with an intersection between the rise of Sinn Féin and agrarian social conflict and a grievous food crisis. This episode highlights a specific incident in the hinterland of Clonaslee at the foot of the Slieve Blooms in February 1918. We'll end up then with the conscription crisis of April 1918 – an important turning point in Irish history but one often overlooked.
Tony Varley will be giving an online talk on the 1923 Land Act next week – https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-civil-war-and-hogans-land-act-tickets-598245667897
Tony Varley is a former lecturer in the Department of Political Science and Sociology in Galway University. Tony has written widely on rural sociology with a particular focus on agrarian parties and community development.
The talk will look at (1) The new state and its agrarian trouble – the background to Hogan's bill (2)The passage of Hogan's bill into law and (3) Reactions to Hogan's 1923 legislation over time.
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