"t says that the Irish Land question was resolved in 1903."
The Land League was in no way the end of the land disputes which, as I said, continued up to Independence and hangovers of t those disputes continued into The Free State Period.
"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."
The disputes mentioned above occurred here in Clare, Kerry and parts of Limerick and took the form of rusting the big landlord's cattle, driving them through the towns then freeing them on open land.
You have insulted a large number of people here with your ignorance and arrogance and your habit of hstily scooping up bits you think make your case continues to spoil these discussions.
Yo once said you had read nothing of Irish history and were not interested enough to do so - it shows.
I'm British but my personal associations with Ireland go back to my childhood and my family history with Ireland is centuries old.
I know from personal contact that Fergie's knowledge of the subject is voluminous - far more than mine, yet you still think you know more than we do through your internet raids.
In describing The Rising as you have, vitrually single-handedly placed yourself above all those who are proudly celebrating the events of Easter 1916, reading anw writing about it as making dozens of programmes about it.
I ask again "do you believe that those at present celebrating the Rising, or those who have always cherished the event are simpletons?"
Jim Carroll