Tenants evicted in East Clare from 1st January,
1878 to 1st January, 1903
Table of evicted tenants
Margaret McNamara, (in window), her sons and daughters await the eviction party.
In August 1903 the The Clare Champion published
a table containing details of tenants evicted in East Clare between 1
January 1878 and 1 January 1903 to mark the passing of the Wyndham Act
- the Land Purchase (Ireland) Act (1903). The Wyndham Act effectively
ended landlordism in Ireland by enabling tenants to buy out their farms
with British government funds. The Act was the culmination of land agitation
throughout the 1880s and 1890s, much of it organised by the Irish Land
League. The Land League was particularly active in East Clare, as seen
by its involvement in the Bodyke
evictions.
The 25 years covered by The Clare Champion publication corresponds
to the period between the founding of the Land League – in 1879
- and the passing of the Wyndham Act. The terms ‘League’ and
‘Branch’ in the table relate to local Land League branches.
