Government Crackdown on Irish Land League Jails Parnell and Other Leaders

Charles Stewart Parnell and others are arrested for Land League activities

Eyemouth Fishing Disaster, nearly, 20 boats and, 129 men (1 in, 3 of the towns male population) lost their lives in a storm.

Government crackdown on Irish Land League jails Parnell and other leaders

In 1879, the Irish National Land League was founded and Charles Stewart Parnell was appointed its president. The Land League was funded by donations from America. It organized boycotts against notorious landlords, encouraged the defiant burning of leas