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| Picture No | 10219500 |
| Date | 1887 |
| Description | Police at Glenbeigh Castle, County Kerry, 1887. |
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Engraving showing a party of police leaving the Right Hon. Rowland Winn's Castle, at Glenbeigh, County Kerry, 1887. Armed police going out to protect the land and estates belonging to a member of Parliament. Only five percent of the land in Southern Ireland was actually owned by Irish people. During the agrarian depression many farmers could not pay their rents and were evicted. They faced complete poverty, emigration or the Land League, which resorted to violent methods to defend their land.
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| Source | The Illustrated London News. 1887. centre of page 135. |
| Credit | © Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans |
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