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Mayo TD Michael Ring has welcomed the announcement from the Department of Agriculture of the opening of the €8 million National Liming Programme, stating that under the scheme, farmers can avail of a €16/tonne subvention to support the spreading of lime and applications can be made up to 20th April 2023.

The Maamtrasna Murders happened at a time of deep unrest in Ireland. Three years previously, the most effective protest against the insidious landlord domination of the vast majority of the Irish people found expression in the Land League. It was established on October 21 1879, in the Imperial Hotel, Castlebar, by a former Fenian prisoner Michael Davitt. In a sweeping revolutionary statement, the League proclaimed the right of every tenant farmer to own the land he worked on. Because of the abuses heaped on tenants by some landlords, it had an immediate impact.

In early October 1884 a journalist from The New York Times, whom we only know by his initials HF, left Galway for Cong by steamer, in the company of Mr TP O'Connor, MP for Galway, and Mr Healy, MP for Monaghan.

University of Galway’s Rural Studies Centre is to lead a new social organisation for the farming community, called Farmer's Yards, with a pilot initiative at Mountbellew Livestock Mart.

The Targeted Agricultural Modernisation Scheme (TAMS) has returned for 2023 with €440 million in funding available for farmers looking to modernise and upgrade their farms.

Spring season has arrived at the Pálás, courtesy of Galway Film Society. The season, which begins on Sunday February 12, will include eight films, and will represent a range of new award-winning titles from across the globe.

Moate-based Irish Rural Link CEO, Seamus BOland, has been re-elected president of a key European consultative group.

Galway farmer Brian Dilleen is well known to people in Galway as the man behind the Mad Yolk ethical farm that sells delicious pasture-raised eggs at markets across the west.

Week IV

When Mitchell Henry entered Westminster parliament in 1871 he went with hope in his heart and a mission to tell the British people the precarious circumstances of the Irish tenant farmer. In many ways he resembled Jefferson Smith in the Frank Cappa film ‘Mr Smith Goes to Washington’ where a naive, idealistic young man has plans to change America.* Mitchell Henry, a liberal, kindly man, had plans to be a voice for the Irish tenant farmer within, what he believed, was a paternalistic landlord system, but he walked into a political cauldron, waiting to explode.