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| Picture No | 10219501 |
| Date | 1887 |
| Description | Irish Peasants attacking an Eviction Party, Ireland, 1887. |
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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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| Source | The Illustrated London News. 1887. bottom left of page 135. |
| Credit | © Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans |
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