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The Land League's Forgotten Women: Anna Parnell and the Ladies' Land League
In this episode, Lucas and Luna explore the crucial but often overlooked role of the Ladies' Land League in Ireland's Land War of the early 1880s. While Michael Davitt and Charles Stewart Parnell are household names, the women who ran the organisation after the male leaders were imprisoned—led by Anna Parnell, Charles's formidable sister—were the ones who kept the rent strike and boycott movement alive. Lucas details how the Ladies' Land League raised funds, organised land league branches across the country, and faced brutal suppression from Dublin Castle. He shares the…
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