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                                                                                                                                                                                      1880 AD

                                                                                                                          "Further Massive Evictions - Charles Stewart Parnell -  Ostracising Boycotts."

1880 AD Arthur Smith - Barry who was a Land Lord at this time had confiscated Estates in Co. Cork and Co. Tipperary in the Munster Province that was comprised of 28,000 acres and his agent was Horace Townsend.

   Owing to the ongoing desperation of the population in Ireland there were to be 2,590 agrarian "crimes" once again committed in Ireland this year as the number of "tenant farmers" in Ireland and their families who were "evicted" by the Land Lords in Ireland, was to rise to 90,000.

January - February: Charles Stewart - Parnell who was now the "President" of the Irish Land League in Britain and an Irish Parliamentary Party M.P., had decided to accept the support offered by John Devoy and the Irish - American organization of the Clann na Gael / The Organization, as they too now wanted once again to try to gain "constitutional reform" in Ireland from the British Imperial Conservative Government still under the confines of Benjamin Disraeli and the "Immoral Union," instead of being continually forced to use "violence," so he committed himself personally to their "New Departure Strategy."

March: The British Westminster Parliament was "dissolved" this month, as Benjamin Disraeli's second ministry of Conservative overall authority came to an "end," as despite the previous presence of nearly 40 Irish Home Rule Party members in the previous Parliament, and therefore their ability to have a strong representation in the Parliament, Benjamin Disraeli had paid little attention or interest to Irish Affairs, and had really produced no Irish Policy at all. In the following General Elections for the British Westminster Parliament the Irish Home Rule Party were to further "increase" their position by 50% when an additional 21 more MPs were "elected" that now increased their numbers to 61, and among these were many "new faces" who were now to be willing to give their allegiances to their new leader, the highly popular, Charles Stewart - Parnell.

April: Benjamin Disraeli was out and William Ewart Gladstone. the Scotsman and Statesman, was returned as the new Liberal Prime Minister of Britain for his "second time" and would remain in until 1885 AD, but despite the new opportunities there was still to be continual "agitation and coercion" in Ireland during these next 5 years even under his leadership, as his Liberal Party still contained a percentage of Conservatism.

May: The Irish Parliamentary Party held a meeting in Dublin to elect their new chairman, and Charles Stewart - Parnell was this time "elected" as their leader with 23 votes to William Shaw's 18 votes, with many of the 18 who voted against him also "refusing" to accept him as their new leader, and as a result they "split off" from the Irish Parliamentary Party, and either became Independent Home Rulers or joined in with the Liberal Party, but, this had the added bonus of leaving Charles Stewart Parnell's group as the only "effective" Irish Home Rule Party, and was also to be an Irish Nationalist Movement, as it was now tied to the objectives of the Irish Land League. Under the more "liberal" leadership of Charles Stewart - Parnell the Irish Parliamentary Party numbers were to continue to "increase" over the following years, as many of the "former" Irish Home Rulers were also to return to the fold, and there were to be "extra seats" to be won in the forthcoming bye - elections.

September: Charles Stewart - Parnell attended a meeting in Ennis in Co. Clare / The Banner County in the north - west of the Munster Province, where he introduced the basic theory of "Boycotting" / Ostracising to all those who were now interested, to try and bring pressure to bear on William Gladstone the British Liberal Prime Minister and his  new Liberal Government in England, in anticipation that this might ensure that the next Irish Land Bill might actually reflect the needs of the "tenants" in Ireland and not those of the Land Lords. The introduction of "Boycotting" was to see a great "reduction" in the number of "tenant farmers" in Ireland and their families being "evicted" after the campaign was to be begun, but it also alarmed the British Liberal Government's Dublin Castle (The Devill's 1/2 Acre) authorities, who still represented the overall policies of the British Imperial Governments in England. but instead of doing something "positive" to bring about further "tenant relief," Cowper who was now the British Lord Lieutenant in Ireland, together with William Forster the British Chief Secretary, put it to William Gladstone the British Liberal Prime Minister to bring in another Irish Coercion Act to which he had to reluctantly agree. Once again the views of those who were now in authority in England under William Gladstone were also to be represented by the views of the Ascendancy's Conservative German Hanoverian Queen, Victoria, whose main concern was that she could not see any "sympathy" in the Irish Land Act for the Land Lords in Ireland.

     Michael Davitt who had founded the Irish Land League, was to become the M.P. for Co. Meath in Northern Leinster in the Westminster Parliament, even though he had previously been and still was "incarcerated in prison" under the tenets of the "Immoral Union" and by the British Imperial Government.  

   Charles Stewart - Parnell the leader of the Irish Parliamentary Party, went on a tour of America, under the auspices of John Devoy and the Clann na Gael / The Organization there in America, who were always working towards an Irish Republic with total Irish Independence and for the ownership of Irish land by the "tenant  farmers" themselves in Ireland, to bring about the solution for all of the "never - ending" problems in Ireland that were continued on under the British Imperial Governments and their "Immoral Union."

   Things now took a turn for the "worse" when Charles Stewart - Parnell was to become personally involved with Mrs. Katherine / Kitty O Shea who had been previously separated from her husband, Captain William O Shea / Shee, who was in the 18th English Hussars, and this was to have grievous consequences for Charles Stewart - Parnell and Ireland later on. Anna Parnell, one of his sisters, also formed the Irish Ladies Land League in America under advise from his other sister, Fanny Parnell. Timothy Healy who was now to be an M.P. also in the Westminster Parliament for various Irish seats until 1910 AD, acted as Charles Stewart - Parnell's secretary while he was in Canada, and the National League of America was to bring in further "funds" towards trying to bring about Irish Home Rule "democratically." John Dillon, who was from Co. Dublin in the north - east of Southern Leinster, was at this time elected the M.P. for Co. Tipperary in the north - east of the Munster Province until 1885 AD who would replace Charles Stewart - Parnell eventually as the "leader" of the Irish Parliamentary Party later on, under very tragic circumstances for everyone concerned,

      As the "tenant farmers" in Ireland's "Ostracising / Boycotts" progressed to try and bring about further "land reform," 50 "Orangemen" were brought in to Lord Erne' s confiscated Estate to begin harvesting his crops under the control of the original, Charles W. Boycott, who was the Overseer on his Estate in Co. Mayo in the mid - west of the Connacht Province, as he had refused to make any sought of "reduction" in the rents for his "tenant farmers" in Ireland and because of his total Conservative stance he had come under the "Ostracising" process put forward by Charles Stewart - Parnell and Michael Davitt, and the great "publicity" it was to receive due to the British Government's Dublin Castle (The Devill's 1/2 Acre) authorities' "oppressive involvement" also in the whole affair, with Charles W. Boycott giving his name to history. To try and break the "tenant farmers" in Irelands resolve Charles W. Boycott was put under the protection of 1,000 members of the Dublin Castle's Royal Irish Police / R.I.C. at a cost of 10,000 pounds to the British Imperial Government who were now "personally" involved in what was a "private dispute" while they attempted to break the "Boycott." The British Imperial Government had once again become heavily involved in what was in reality a "commercial" matter, while endeavouring to "interfere" in the lives and the resolve of the"tenant farmers" in Ireland to bring about "tenant land reform" for themselves and their fellow neighbours. The Moonlighters / Captain Moonlight, which was the general term now being used for the Irish Land League that had previously been set up by Michal Davitt, were by now very active, over another "rejection" of the Irish Land Bill that had recently been "dismissed / vetoed" by the "unelected" Conservative controlled British House of Lords, with the involvement of the Irish Land League now "restraining" the "nefarious" actions of the Land Lords, and thereby also checking the ongoing "evictions" of the "tenant farmers" and their families until 1887 AD.  

      William T. Cosgrave / Liam Ua Cosgraigh who would become the "first " Prime Minister of the "Irish Free State" in 1922 AD after the Anglo - Irish War in the future, was born this year. 

    The fully committed Thomas Power - O Connor now also became the Irish Nationalist M.P. for Co. Galway in Southern Connacht in the Westminster Parliament until 1885 AD.

    Hoping for a better way of life a young James Connolly was at this time taken to Edinburgh / Dunedin in Scotland by his parents, but due to the terrible prevailing conditions that they would also experience there, under the British Imperial Government, he would grow up to be a very "strong socialist," and then become one of the "main" instigators in the forthcoming "1916 Irish Easter Rising," which would lead on to partial Irish Independence of 26 of the 32 Counties in Ireland in 1922 AD.

   Sean O Casey the writer was also born this year, who was reared as a non - Catholic and grew up in Dublin.

  Lord Mountmorres was also murdered this year.  

 

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