History of Ireland's War on Landlords

CATU is a Union for people outside their workplace continuing on the Irish, working class, indigenous tradition of fighting for the right to our land back. From Cromwell to the White Boys to the Land War to the Rent Strikes, Ireland's fight for Independence in inextricably linked to our fight for our land. Today more people have been evicted than the second half of the 1845-50 Famine, by extending homelessness to those in precarious living, approximately 12% of the population are homeless so our bourgeoisie serving politicians can keep making the rich richer. It's time to fight the Brits, the vulture funds, the indigenous landlords, the politicians and last but not least the rich.

Full bibliography in the comments.

Recommended reading:

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Recommended:
Tubridy, Fiadh et al. The New Tenant. CATU. – all proceeds go to CATU.
Connolly, James. Labour in Irish History. London: Bookmarks, 1987.
Mcveigh, Robbie and Bill Rolston. Ireland, Colonialism, and the Unfinished Revolution. Belfast: Beyond The Pale Books, 2021.
Hanley, Brian and Scott Millar. The Lost Revolution: The Story of the Official IRA and the Workers’ Party. Dublin: Penguin Ireland, 2009.


Plantations, 1641 Rising, and Cromwellian Conquest:
Mcveigh, Robbie and Bill Rolston. Ireland, Colonialism, and the Unfinished Revolution. Belfast: Beyond The Pale Books, 2021.
Gaelic Ireland: Duffy, Patrick J. et al. Gaelic Ireland c. 1250-c. 1650: Land, Lordship, and Settlement.

Land Agitations – secret societies, Land War, Big House burnings, rent strikes etc. -in chronological order.
• Christenson, Gale E. “Secret Societies and Agrarian Violence in Ireland, 1790-1840.” Agricultural History 46, No. 3 (Jul 1972), 369-384.
• Philpin, C.H.E. Nationalism and Popular Protest in Ireland. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1987.
• Garvin, Tom. “Defenders, Ribbonmen, and Others: Underground Political Networks in Pre-Famine Ireland.” Past & Present, No. 96 (August 1982), 133-155.
• Boyd, Andrew. The Rise of the Irish Trade Unions. London: Anvil Books, 1972.
• Connolly, James. Labour in Irish History. London: Bookmarks, 1987.
• Jackson, Alvin. The Oxford Handbook of Modern Irish History. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013.
• Curtis, L. Perry. “Balfour and the Plan of Campaign” in Coercion and Conciliation in Ireland 1880-1892.” New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1963.
• Curtis, L. Perry. “The Battering Ram and Irish Evictions, 1887-90, ” Éire-Ireland, Vol. 42, No. 3 and 4 (Fall/Winter 2007), pp. 207-228.

Ferriter, Diarmaid. The Transformation of Ireland 1900-2000. London: Profile Books Ltd, 2004.
Dooley, Terence. Burning the Big House: The Story of the Irish Country House in a Time of War and Revolution. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2022.
Dooley, Terence. “The Land for the People” – The Land Question in Independent Ireland. Dublin: University College Dublin Press, 2004.
Hanley, Brian and Scott Millar. The Lost Revolution: The Story of the Official IRA and the Workers’ Party. Dublin: Penguin Ireland, 2009.
Tubridy, Fiadh. Rent Strike 1970-73: Reclaiming the history of Irish tenants’ struggles.


1740/1845-52 Famines and related crimes:
• Woodward, Nicholas. “Transportation Convictions during the Great Irish Famine, ” The Journal of Interdisciplinary History 37, No. 1 (Summer 2006), 59-87.
• The Irish History Podcast: Ireland’s Other Great Famine: The Year of Slaughter of 1740-41. 2014.



Policing in Ireland:
O’Sullivan, Donal J. The Irish Constabularies 1822-1922.
Conway, Vicky. Policing Twentieth Century Ireland: A History of an Garda Síochána.

Also talked about in Land War, famine, and secret society articles. These sources are more general in their discussion of policing.

For population stats: