James Fintan Lalor (1809-1849) was a prominent member of the Young Ireland movement, who later played an active role in the 1848 Rebellion as well as an attempted rising in September of that same year. His writings, which were published at the peak of the Irish Famine, were fervent in their hatred of the landlord class as well as asserting the principle of the sovereign people’s right to the land of Ireland, which would become a key tenet of nationalist doctrine, influencing James Connolly, Pádraig Pearse and later nationalist movements such as the Land League.
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Tenant’s Right and Landlord Law
Tenant Right Meeting in Tipperary