Irish National Land League Conradh na Talún | |
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 Irish landlord reduced to begging for rent, 1880 caricature | |
| Abbreviation | INLL |
| President | Charles Stewart Parnell |
| Secretary | Andrew Kettle Michael Davitt Thomas Brennan |
| Founded | 21 October 1879 |
| Dissolved | 17 October 1882 |
| Succeeded by | Irish National League |
| Ideology | Agrarianism Irish nationalism |
| Political position | Centre-left |
The Irish National Land League (Irish: Conradh na Talún), also known as the Land League, was an Irish political organisation of the late 19th century which organised tenant farmers in their resistance to exactions of landowners. Its primary aim was to abolish landlordism in Ireland and enable tenant farmers to own the land they worked on. The period of the Land League's agitation is known as the Land War. Historian R. F. Foster argues that in the countryside the Land League "reinforced the politicization of rural Catholic nationalist Ireland, partly by defining that identity against urbanization, landlordism, Englishness and—implicitly—Protestantism."[1] Foster adds that about a third of the activists were Catholic priests, and Archbishop Thomas Croke was one of its most influential champions.[2]