Irish Peasants attacking an Eviction Party, Ireland, 1887

Engraving showing several poor Irish farmers preparing to attack an eviction party with boulders, Ireland, 1887. Absentee landlords evicted tenant farmers who could not pay their rent during the agricultural depression in Ireland. The farmers who could afford to emigrated, those who couldn't died or resorted to violence to try and keep the land

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