The life of Michael Davitt
Subtitle: founder of the National Land League
By: by D. B. Cashman. to which is added, The secret history of the Land League ; by Michael Davitt.
Contributors: Davitt, Michael, 1846-1906.
Publisher: Cameron & Ferguson
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 256
Subjects: Davitt, Michael, -- 1846-1906.; Irish National Land League.
Table of contents: title: CONTENTS; title: INTRODUCTION.; title: A Brief History of British Tyranny in Ireland, from the Invasion in 1170 to the Act of Union in 1800, with an Account of the Penal Enactments in the Different Reigns, 7-12; title: CHAPTER I.; title: The Great Land Agitation — Michael DaVitt again in a Convict's Garb — Inallfail 13-15; title: CHAPTER II.; title: Michael DaVitt — His Early Life-Eviction from his Fans Home in Mayo — Emigration, 16-19; title: CHAPTER III.; title: Davitt as a literary Man — His Arrest, Trial, and Prison Sufferings, 20-29; title: CHAPTER IV.; title: From Milibaak to Dartmoor — Six Yean sad Six Months of Agony, 30-42; title: CHAPTER V.; title: Released on Ticket-of-Leave — Grand Reception in Dublin — Sergeant McCarthy's Death — Davitt visits Mayo — His First Lecture in England, 43-53; title: CHAPTER VI.; title: Davitt's First Visit to America — Seed of the Laud League Sown by Advanced Nationalists — The New Doctrine Expounded by Davitt — A National Platform Proposed, 54-70; title: CHAPTER VII.; title: Why the Fanners were not Fenians — Radical Revolutionists and the Land Question — The "New Departure" — The Abolition of Landlordism, 71-72; title: CHAPTER VIII.; title: How Irish Tenant-Farmers are Ground Down by the Landlords — Why the Extremists should Aid the Land Agitation — The Law of Primogeniture Explained — The Ancient Irish Law of Gavel — Statistics relating to Land and Landlords, 73-82; title: CHAPTER IX.; title: Davitt's Return to Ireland — The Agitation begun in Mayo — Death of Isaac Butt — Pronouncements by the Catholic Clergy — Famine Clouds appear on the Horizon — Archbishop MacHale Condemns the Leaders of the Agitation — Michael Davitt's Reply, 83-96; title: CHAPTER X.; title: The Landlords Refuse to Lower the Rents — The Agitators Demand the Abolition of Landlordism — Repeal of the Irish Convention Act — The First National Convention held in Mayo to form a — Appeal to Irish — Americans — Manifesto of the Trustees of the Irish National Fund, 97-167; title: CHAPTER XI.; title: The Irish National Land League Formed in Dublin — The Distress Increasing — Irish Members Invoke Government Aid — Davitt Arrested — Lodged in Sligo Jail — On to Balia Committed for Trial — Parnell to Chicago — Davitt's Lecture in England, 108-120; title: CHAPTER XII.; title: Parnell and Dillon in New York — Great Meeting in Madison Square Garden — Parnell Addresses Congress — The Famine in Ireland — How the Landlords Acted — The Relief Bill — Land Meeting on the spot where Davitt was born, 121-129; title: CHAPTER XIII.; title: The National Land League Started in America — Davitt again visits the United States — First Land League Convention in New York — America's Aid During the Famine — The Compensation for Disturbance Bill Rejected — Evictions — Davitt in San Francisco — The Ladies' Land League begun — Davitt Leaves for Ireland — Boycotting Boycott — The State Trials — The Coercion Act in Force, 130-144; title: CHAPTER XIV.; title: Davitt Arrested — Again in a Convict's Garb — Portland Prison Described — The Ticket-of-Leave — The News in the House of Commons — Expulsion of Thirty-four Members — The National Land League Convention — No Peace in Ireland while Davitt is in a Convict's Cell, 145-155; title: CHAPTER XV.; title: The Land League Proposal — Addresses Delivered at Manchester and Liverpool, 156-185; title: CHAPTER XVI.; title: Mr Davitt on Liberty — The Contrasts between American Freedom and Irish Degradation during the Past Century vividly Portrayed, 186-192; title: CHAPTER XVII.; title: The Story of the Land War by Michael Davitt — The Origin, History, and Objects of the Land League — The Record of Landlordism — What the People of Ireland are working for — The Secret History of the Land League — Why there is a Land Question at all, 193-253; title: CHAPTER XVIII.; title: Mr Davitt's Proposals for the Formation of the National Land and Industrial Union of Ireland, 254-256