Royal Irish Constabulary going by sea to enforce evictions

Members of the Royal Irish Constabulary going in open sailing boats called hookers to enforce evictions on the Islands of the West Coast of Ireland. These forcible evictions were the backdrop to the land and rent wars in the mid to late 19th century

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