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Michael Davitt
Davitt, Michael
Davitt, Michael (1846–1906) Irish nationalist and land reformer. The son of an Irish farmer who had been evicted from his holding, he opposed the British-imposed land-holding system in Ireland. In 1865 he joined the
IRISH REPUBLICAN BROTHERHOOD, a movement committed to the establishment of an independent republic of Ireland. He was sentenced to 15 years' penal servitude in 1870 for smuggling weapons for the
FENIANS. Released in 1877 he helped found the Irish Land League in 1879, an organization formed to achieve land reform. With Charles Sewart
PARNELL, he sought to protect Irish peasants against evictions and high rents. He was elected a Member of Parliament in 1882 while in prison, and again in 1892 and 1895. The agitation that he led influenced Gladstone to introduce the 1881 Irish Land Act, guaranteeing fair rents, fixity of tenure, and freedom to sell (the Three Fs) to tenants.
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A radical reformer.(Michael Davitt: Freelance Radical and Frondeur)(Book review)
Magazine article from: Irish Literary Supplement; 9/22/2008; ; 700+ words
; LAURENCE MARLEY Michael Davitt: Freelance radical and frondeur Four Courts Press, 2007, 45...and engaging work is that a rigorous intellectual biography of Michael Davitt's entire career has been long overdue. The man best known as...
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JOHN H. DAVITT, LEADER OF JUSTICE DEPARTMENT'S ESPIONAGE UNIT
Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe; 2/18/2005; ; 700+ words
; ...value of hard work. John H. Davitt, 81, who died Monday of pancreatic...was the disciplinarian," said Michael Davitt of Silver Spring, Md., who...County Wicklow by a friend," Michael Davitt said. "He built a house on it...
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 "Lake Forester (Lake Forest, IL)")
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LF, Davitt celebrate sectional win
Newspaper article from: Lake Forester (Lake Forest, IL); 2/26/2009; ; 629 words
; ...it into a sprint style." Davitt and friends all ripped through...relay. The team of Sheng Hu, Michael Hoelterhoff, Davitt and Mitch Stoehr claimed a...The team of Hoelterhoff, Michael Gannon, Davitt and Hu registered a time of...
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Espionage Attorney John Davitt Dies
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post; 2/17/2005; 510 words
; ...include his wife of 54 years, Margaret Devine Davitt of Cotuit and Naples; 10 children, Irene Jones...N.H., Patricia Long of Silver Spring, John Davitt of Washington, Michael Davitt of Silver Spring, Brian Davitt of Manchester...
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 "Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL)")
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Ronald Rodney Davitt.(Obituaries)(Obituary)
Newspaper article from: Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL); 12/21/2003; 700+ words
; ...the medley relay. Mr. Davitt attended the University...California at Berkeley. Mr. Davitt returned to Bloomington...their first son, Jeffrey Michael was born. Ron and his...by his sons, Jeffrey Michael and Terence Guy (Lisa...Sean and Christopher Davitt; his granddaughters...
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 "Naperville Sun, The (IL)")
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Davitt in, Tableriou out as candidates for board
Newspaper article from: Naperville Sun, The (IL); 12/13/2002; ; 700+ words
; ...board of education. Michael Davitt, co-chairman of Naperville...ruffled some feathers," Davitt said. "But that's...how things change." Davitt is the eighth community...Price, Mangala Salvi, Michael Jaensch, Ed Rivas and...
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Davitt--Land Warrior: Kevin Haddick Flynn looks back at the life and times of radical Michael Davitt as Ireland remembers the centenary of his death on May 31st.(Biography)
Magazine article from: History Today; 5/1/2006; ; 700+ words
; ...was largely thanks to one man, Michael Davitt, and to the Land League that he...protest escalated into the Land War. Davitt was born in 1846 in Mayo. His Catholic...poor Irish immigrant community, Davitt grew up. The boy had had only a...
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Michael Davitt in a league of his own
Newspaper article from: The Irish Times; 5/26/2009; ; 700+ words
; May 26th, 1887: MICHAEL DAVITT, the founder of the Land...when he was a child. Mr Davitt at Strade Having heard...boycotters" expected to greet Davitt, the writer decided to...been the birthplace of Michael... In the immediate...
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 "The Mirror (London, England)")
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Mary in tribute to Davitt.(News)
Newspaper article from: The Mirror (London, England); 4/13/2006; 427 words
; ...yesterday to mark the centenary of Michael Davitt's death. At the start of a two...in honour of Land League founder Davitt in Hasling-den, Lancashire...the Irish Democratic League Club. Davitt was born in 1846 near Foxford...
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EUR11k for portrait of Davitt.(News)
Newspaper article from: The Mirror (London, England); 6/1/2006; 390 words
; ...A PORTRAIT of Irish rebel Michael Davitt lying in state was sold for...100th year since the death of Davitt, a typical figure in Irish...close relationship with both Michael and his wife Mary. A second...CAPTION(S): REBEL: Davitt
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Davitt, Michael
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to Irish History
Davitt, Michael (1846–1906), nationalist...tenant farmer of Straide, Co. Mayo, Davitt spent his childhood and youth in Haslingden...of‐leave, December 1877, Davitt became an architect of the New Departure...
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Michael Davitt
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Michael Davitt , 1846-1906, Irish revolutionary and...English for his revolutionary activities. Davitt and Charles Stewart Parnell were the leading...Influenced by the theories of Henry George , Davitt broke with Parnell over the question of...
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Ladies' Land League
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to Irish History
Ladies' Land League ( LLL ), set up in 1881 at Michael Davitt 's invitation to run the Land War in the event of its...of them from middle‐class backgrounds. Davitt claimed later that the LLL were ‘honester...
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Land League
Book article from: A Dictionary of World History
...Ireland. It was founded in 1879 by an ex- FENIAN , Michael DAVITT , to secure reforms in the land-holding system. With...government declared the Land League illegal and imprisoned Davitt and Parnell. Branches of the League were formed in...
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Amos, Tori
Book article from: Contemporary Musicians
...Atlantic Records, 75 Rockefeller Plaza, New York, NY 10019. Michael Walden responded favorably, and they actually cut some tracks...deny. Atlantic executive John Carter teamed her with producer Davitt Sigerson (The Bangles, David & David) in 1990, and...
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