Charles Stewart Parnell, at an anti-rent meeting in Limerick, Ireland, 31 August 1879
Illustration by William Hatherell ( 1855 - 1928 ) from Cassell's Century Edition History of England, pub circa 1901. Info from wiki: Parnell preferred to keep all options open without clearly committing himself when he spoke in 1879 before Irish Tenant Defence Associations at Ballinasloe and Tralee. It was not until Davitt persuaded him to address a second meeting at Westport, County Mayo in June that he began to grasp the potential of the land reform movement. At a national level several approaches were made which eventually produced the 'New Departure' of June 1879, endorsing the foregone informal agreement which asserted an understanding binding them to mutual support and a shared political agenda. In addition, the 'New Departure' asserted the Fenian movement and its armed strategies.[12] Working together with Davitt (who was impressed by Parnell[13]) he now took on the role of leader of the New Departure, holding platform meeting after platform meeting around the country.[9] Throughout the autumn of 1879, he repeated the message to tenants after the long depression had left them without income for rent: You must show the landlord that you intend to keep a firm grip on your homesteads and lands. You must not allow yourselves be dispossessed as you were dispossessed in 1847
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