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The life of Michael Davitt : founder of the National Land League

CONTENTS INTRODUCTION. A Brief History of British Tyranny in Ireland, from the Invasion in 1170 to the Act of Union in 1800, with an Account of the Penal Enactments in the Different Reigns, 7-12 CHAPTER I. The Great Land Agitation — Michael DaVitt again in a Convict's Garb — Inallfail 13-15 CHAPTER II. Michael DaVitt — His Early Life-Eviction from his Fans Home in Mayo — Emigration, 16-19 CHAPTER III. Davitt as a literary Man — His Arrest, Trial, and Prison Sufferings, 20-29 CHAPTER IV. From Milibaak to Dartmoor — Six Yean sad Six Months of Agony, 30-42 CHAPTER V. Released on Ticket-of-Leave — Grand Reception in Dublin — Sergeant McCarthy's Death — Davitt visits Mayo — His First Lecture in England, 43-53 CHAPTER VI. Davitt's First Visit to America — Seed of the Laud League Sown by Advanced Nationalists — The New Doctrine Expounded by Davitt — A National Platform Proposed, 54-70 CHAPTER VII. Why the Fanners were not Fenians — Radical Revolutionists and the Land Question — The "New Departure" — The Abolition of Landlordism, 71-72 CHAPTER VIII. How Irish Tenant-Farmers are Ground Down by the Landlords — Why the Extremists should Aid the Land Agitation — The Law of Primogeniture Explai

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