Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of figures
- List of maps
- List of tables
- Acknowledgments
- List of abbreviations
- Introduction
- PART 1 COUNTY MAYO PRIOR TO THE FAMINE
- PART 2 THE POST-FAMINE TRANSFORMATION OF COUNTY MAYO
- PART 3 THE LAND WAR IN COUNTY MAYO
- 6 The West's Awake! The early months of the Land War
- 7 The centralization of the agitation, June 1879-April 1880
- 8 Tensions within the Land League in County Mayo, 1880
- 9 The collapse of the land agitation, 1880-1881
- 1 Mayo evictions: explanation of calculations and sources for Table 4.1 and Figure 4.1
- 2 Occupations of suspected Fenians, County Mayo, as recorded in police files, 1866-71
- 3 List of persons whose arrest is recommended under the Protection of Persons and Property Act, 1881, County Mayo
- 4 Explanation of categories and list of Land League meetings for Map 5.2 and Table 3.1
- Bibliography
- Index
- Past and Present Publications
6 - The West's Awake! The early months of the Land War
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 03 May 2011
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of figures
- List of maps
- List of tables
- Acknowledgments
- List of abbreviations
- Introduction
- PART 1 COUNTY MAYO PRIOR TO THE FAMINE
- PART 2 THE POST-FAMINE TRANSFORMATION OF COUNTY MAYO
- PART 3 THE LAND WAR IN COUNTY MAYO
- 6 The West's Awake! The early months of the Land War
- 7 The centralization of the agitation, June 1879-April 1880
- 8 Tensions within the Land League in County Mayo, 1880
- 9 The collapse of the land agitation, 1880-1881
- 1 Mayo evictions: explanation of calculations and sources for Table 4.1 and Figure 4.1
- 2 Occupations of suspected Fenians, County Mayo, as recorded in police files, 1866-71
- 3 List of persons whose arrest is recommended under the Protection of Persons and Property Act, 1881, County Mayo
- 4 Explanation of categories and list of Land League meetings for Map 5.2 and Table 3.1
- Bibliography
- Index
- Past and Present Publications
Summary
The West's Asleep
When all beside a vigil keep
The West's asleep, the West's asleep
Alas and well may Erin weep
When Connacht lives in slumber deep
But hark some voice like thunder spake
The West's awake, the West's awake
Sing oh, hurrah, let England quake
We'll watch till death for Erin's sake!
Attributed to Thomas DavisNow Alice, for goodness' sake don't begin. I am sick of that Land League. From morning to night it is nothing but coercion and Griffith's valuation.
George Moore, A Drama in MuslinThe Irish Land War began at Irishtown in County Mayo on 20 April 1879. By summer much of the county was enveloped in an agitation consisting of Sunday rallies with fiery speeches and militant resolutions. It was a heady time, when gaily dressed men and women marched to rallies in military formation, following pike-carrying horsemen and local bands playing patriotic airs. They cheered lustily the most inflammatory anti-landlord speeches and listened attentively to balladeers lament their plight and joyfully affirm their new militancy. Yet this air of festivity could not mask the increased foreboding of Mayo people that the economic distress of the previous two years would soon turn into a full-fledged famine.
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- Land and Popular Politics in IrelandCounty Mayo from the Plantation to the Land War, pp. 199 - 229Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1994