The Irish Land War is usually remembered as a struggle between landlords and tenants, led by Charles Stewart Parnell and fought in the fields and villages of rural Ireland. Yet its methods tell a different story. Michael Davitt, the son of evicted Mayo tenants who came of age in the cotton mills of Lancashire, brought the techniques of…

By Westport House - Alabaster Statue of Grace O'Malley (Granuaile) (1530-1603) by Joseph Mischyshyn, CC BY-SA 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=122557070

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Grace O'Malley (Gráinne Mhaol), the sixteenth-century Irish chieftain, trader and naval commander whose life continues to inspire new generations.…