Redmond, Paul
(2003)
Denis Kilbride M.P. 1848-1924.
Masters thesis, National University of Ireland Maynooth.
Abstract
The purpose of this study is to give an account of the life and times of Denis KilBride in
as balanced a fashion as possible. KilBride had a long and varied career and lived to be
seventy-six years of age. The study concentrates on his life and times, which included
the Luggacurren evictions of which he played a major part, his path to political life and
his representation of three constituencies, south Kerry, north Galway and south Kildare
for a period of thirty-one years. As a result of the prolonged depression in agriculture,
KilBride, an educated and politically active gentlemen tenant farmer with his own subtenants
and labourers, in an era of rising expectations, was to experience insurmountable
financial difficulties, which culminated in his eventual eviction from an 868 acre farm
on the Lansdowne estate at Wood House, Luggacurren. The Luggacurren evictions took
place during the turbulent agrarian agitation years of the plan of campaign from cl 886-
1906.
| Item Type: |
Thesis
(Masters)
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| Keywords: |
Denis Kilbride; 1848-1924; |
| Academic Unit: |
Faculty of Arts,Celtic Studies and Philosophy > History |
| Item ID: |
5185 |
| Depositing User: |
IR eTheses
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| Date Deposited: |
17 Jul 2014 08:04 |
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