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Land League Celebration in Mayo

Posted in Anna Parnell, Michael Davitt, tagged , , on November 3, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Great excitement – I’ve been asked to speak at the Michael Davitt Museum in Straid, County Mayo this Friday, November 6th, as part of a celebration by the Michael Davitt National Memorial Association to mark 130 years since the foundation of the Land League. Michael Davitt is known as “The Father of the Land League”, [...]

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Michael Davitt the Peacemaker

Posted in Anna Parnell, Michael Davitt, articles, tagged , , on September 29, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Kevin Myers wrote a lovely insightful article about Michael Davitt in today’s Irish Independent newspaper, called “None dreamed such impossible dreams as Davitt did and then made them come true”. Comparing Davitt to a nineteenth-century Ghandi, Myers writes, “Davitt’s real lesson for the world — which Ghandi learnt, but tragically Pearse and Connolly did not [...]

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