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Tubberclair GAA reflect on sporting year at well attended club AGM
Tubberclair GAA hosted a very well attended AGM within the surrounds of their clubhouse in recent times.
‘A man ran shouting: Lord Cavendish and Burke are killed..’
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.
