As the Land War gripped the west of Ireland in 1880, the Daily News sent Bernard Becker, a writer with neither Irish politics nor Irish friends, to report on the disturbed districts. His letters take him to Lough Mask, where Captain Boycott’s harvest was brought in under guard, to land meetings, agrarian disputes and tense estates, among tenants and landlords alike.
Vivid, even-handed reportage from the birth of the boycott, for readers of Irish history. Download the free EPUB.