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Thread #45911   Message #3786471
Posted By: Jim Carroll
21-Apr-16 - 12:35 PM
Thread Name: BS: Easter Rising - April 24-29, 1916
Subject: RE: Easter Rising - April 24-29, 1916
"Are you claiming that Wiki is wrong in this statement?"
You have just been given the situation of the land wars - did I make them up or are they all propaganda, as Fergie's statements are?
One more time
"The grazier system provoked the growth of the United Irish League and the so-called 'ranch war' of the early twentieth century[63]. Many landlords, particularly in the west and in the midlands, who had favoured the grazier system, once again found their estates under prolonged threat from agrarian agitators. In the post-1903 period, the U.I.L. demanded the break-up and distribution of estates belonging to landlords who were not willing to sell under
the terms of the Wyndham act. There was prolonged agitation on the Ashtown estate in Co Galway, for example,which lasted from around 1905 to 1914[64] . With the outbreak of World War I agitation temporarily abated on most estates as farming profits improved. Land sales under the land acts were suspended without provoking any great opposition. However, when the war ended and economic prosperity waned, smallholders and the landless once again began to clamour for the break-up of estates."
And again, one more time.
"do you believe that those at present celebrating the Rising, or those who have always cherished the event are simpletons?"
Your continued arrogance is beyond belief
Jim Carroll