Images Dated 12th January 2009

Constabulary guarding a government reporter at a plan of campaign meeting, Ireland, 1887

Constabulary guarding a government reporter at a plan of campaign meeting, Ireland, 1887. The Plan of Campaign was a strategy adopted by the Irish National League in support of tenant farmers in their dispute against landlords during the so-called Irish Land War. Bad harvests in the mid 1880s had exacerbated the plight of the tenants and led to an upsurge in evictions. Sketches in Ireland. A print from The Illustrated London News, 8th January 1887

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Outside the National Rent Office after the arrest of O'Brien and Dillon, Loughrea, Ireland, 1887

Outside the National Rent Office after the arrest of O'Brien and Dillon, Loughrea, Ireland, 1887. A scene during the Irish Land League agitation. Founded in 1879, with Charles Stewart Parnell as its president, the Irish Land League campaigned on behalf of tenant farmers with the intention of reducing rents to a fair level. Its ultimate objective was to provide tenants with the opportunity of owning the land they worked on. The League organised rent strikes, which led to evictions by police acting on behalf of landlords in what became known as the Land War, which lasted from 1880 until 1892.. A print from The Illustrated London News, 1st January 1887

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Alfonso XII, King of Spain, 1875

Alfonso XII, King of Spain, 1875. A print from The Illustrated London News, 16th January 1875. Alfonso XII (1857-1885) ruled Spain from 1875, when the monarchy was restored after a coup d'etat brought the Spanish First Republic to an end

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