Sketches In Ireland: Building A Land-League Hut For Evicted Tenants

Sketches in Ireland: building a Land-League hut for evicted tenants, Hacketstown, Co. Carlow, 1881. Engraving from a sketch by '...our Special Artist, Mr. A. O'Kelly [depicting] Land Leaguers, on their side, putting up some wooden huts for the accommodation of twenty-one families evicted from their farms at Hacketstown, the property of Mr. C. D. Guinness. These wooden houses are constructed in Dublin, by order of the Ladies' Land League, and are sent down by railway, wherever required, with a couple of carpenters to see to their erection...Incendiary fires have taken place in the county of Meath and other parts of Ireland, to destroy the property of farmers who disobeyed the orders of the Land League; and cattle have been mutilated. The service of legal notices of eviction, by the sheriffs and sub-sheriffs, has been obstructed by riotous mobs; and two members of the Dublin Ladies' Land League, Miss Reynolds and another, have taken a conspicuous part on these occasions, exhorting the tenants not to pay their rents'. From "Illustrated London News", 1881. Creator: Unknown. (Photo by The Print Collector/Heritage Images via Getty Images)