An interesting article HERE on the execution of two Irishmen for the murder of a hated land agent. It's interesting not just for content about the attitudes of the Irish toward these land agents, but also illustrates just how little "justice" there was for any Irishman who got swept up in the British "justice" system in Ireland.

From the article:

“Land agents” — the rent-squeezing fist of distant landlords — were not popular people in Ireland. These bill collectors literally ran people out of house and home: one late 19th century land agent in Ireland recalled in his memoirs having received over a hundred threatening letters and, in November 1884, having his house in Kerry dynamited.

So the 1857 murder of Tipperary land agent John Ellis drew little surprise (his life had been attempted at least twice before, when he evicted people to prospective starvation during the Great Famine), and drew scarcely any mourning.

Links:

Evictions

The Land War (Irish: Cogadh na Talún) in Irish history

EVICTIONS OF PEASANTRY IN IRELAND