Land League

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Webster's Dictionary [1]

In Ireland, a combination of tenant farmers and other, organized, with Charles Stewart Parnell as president, in 1879 with a view to the reduction of farm rents and a reconstruction of the land laws.

The Nuttall Encyclopedia [2]

An organisation founded by Davitt ( q. v .) in Ireland in 1879 to deal with the land question, and suppressed in 1881 as illegal.

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