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A facsimile reprint in the Hibernia series chosen and introduced by John Kelly ISBN 1 85477 219 8 200 x 127 mm 228 pages |
JAMES FINTAN LALOR Collected Writings 1918 James Fintan Lalor (1807-49), land agitator and political activist, was born in Queen's County (now Laois). A congenital spinal disease caused him chronic ill-health, but he worked as a farmer and was influenced by local land reformers. In the 1840s he began publishing articles in the Nation based on the principle that only those who worked on the land should own it. The Famine led him into direct action: he attempted to found tenant-right societies and organise rent strikes, and also became co-editor of John Mitchel's radical weekly, The Irish Felon. Lalor was arrested following the 1848 Insurrection, but released because of ill-health. He joined a secret organisation with a number of men who later became Fenians, but his attempt to raise another insurrection in 1849 failed through lack of support, and he died shortly afterwards. If his impact on events in his lifetime was limited, his writings exerted a seminal influence on later Irish leaders such as Michael Davitt, James Connolly, Padraic Pearse, and Arthur Griffith. This is a reprint of the first collection of his work, and contains a preface by Griffith. £42 $65 |
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