3-070-797 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

The State of Ireland: tilling the farm of an imprisoned Land Leaguer, 1881. 'The arrest of Mr. John Dillon, M.P. for Tipperary, and the proclamation of Dublin as a district to be put under the provisions of the recent Act for the summary repression of seditious practices and other attacks on the public peace, have been among the remarkable events of the past week...There are forty or fifty Land League prisoners now in Kilmainham Gaol, having been arrested by the Irish Government under the Peace Preservation Act...Among those confined at Kilmainham, besides Mr. Dillon, M.P., are Messrs. Boyton and Sheridan, leading members of the Land League, but most of the prisoners are rather obscure persons, and there are a few of the peasant or small farmer class. In the case of some of these, who have left their farms in Mayo or Connemara, a demonstration of sympathy has been got up by assembling numbers of people, men and women, as shown in our Artist's Sketch, to dig and plant in their fields; the season for putting in potatoes being in March or April, and rather late this year'. From "Illustrated London News", 1881.