Events from the year 1879 in Ireland. Second year of Mini-famine (1878–1880) which has its greatest impact in the "wet" West of Ireland where the potato harvest is greatly reduced, and …

The Irish famine of 1879 was the last main Irish famine. Unlike the earlier Great Famines of 1740–1741 and 1845–1852, the 1879 famine (sometimes called the "mini-famine" or an Gorta …

When the 1879 famine brought yet more evictions of tenant farmers, moves were made to end the unfair system that saw only 750 families own half of Ireland's land.

The Land War (Irish: Cogadh na Talún) [1] was a period of agrarian agitation in rural Ireland (then wholly part of the United Kingdom) that began in 1879.

The 1879 Famine, sometimes referred to as the ‘Forgotten Famine’, affected the west of Ireland, where again the potato crop had failed. The farmers in the west relied on the potato crop …

The Land War of 1879 to 1882 began in the wake of three years of economic downturn that arrested the postfamine economic progress of many Irish farmers and heightened the anxiety …

Feb 16, 2011 · One hundred twenty-two years ago this week, on Oct. 21, 1879, tenant farmers in partnership with Irish nationalists founded the Irish National Land League.

Feb 15, 2021 · On January 22, 1879, under a mountain named Isandlwana, a Zulu force, some 20,000 strong attacked a British military encampment containing about 1,700 men; British …

intensified after 1846, the exodus from Ireland became an unstoppable flood. Close to a million desperate Irish people emigrated to overseas countries between 1846 and 1851.

Feb 1, 2021 · Land and politics, 1879-1903 / Philip Bull -- Failure and the making of the New Ireland / Andrew Gailey -- Irish unionism and the New Ireland / Patrick Buckland -- Great …