eviction

A sad day.

What a sad indictment on capitalism (or absentee landlords, or both).

What amazes me is how long we took to outlaw ground rent. Maybe you should have published more of these pictures sooner. Still, at least we're better than the neighbours, who are only considering outlawing it now.

Oh dear - it is eviction time again. Sad and fascinating at the same time. 1888 according to this Trove find about the landlord, Mr James E. Byrne, "The Hermit of Coolroe", who died in 1898. - trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/211842833

WEXFORD. Death of the " Hermit of Coolroe." — Mr. James E. Byrne, better known as the " Hermit of Coolroe," died on Tuesday, Feb. 22 [1898], at Rosemount, outside New Ross. He was a bachelor, and had attained to nearly 90 years of. age. He was a most remarkable old man, who possessed an extraordinary amount of obstinacy and determination. He inherited the Coolroe Estate in South Wexford, and in the year '88 gained an unenviable notoriety by the wholesale eviction of his tenants, who were driven; by inability to pay exorbitant rents, to adopt the Plan of Campaign. One of the tenants' houses, known as "Somers' Fort," was fortified and defended by twelve armed men, but after a long struggle, and chiefly through the agency of the battering ram, it was taken. All attempts at reconciliation or reinstatement were unavailing so far as the landlord was concerned, and the tenants are still at the back of the ditches.

Full 1888 description - Read All About It ! - trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/226677328 This report includes all the names of the 12 defenders - trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/115458961

An excuse to link to one of my favourite shots ever:

I think this eviction is on the Vandeleur estate, at the far side of Clare from the O'Halloran girls at Bodyke.

Niall McAuley We either linked to it for one of our other eviction pictures, we had it already, or all evictions look the same. I reckon we saw it whenever you last trotted out your favourite pic above.

L_ROY_01769 is "T.Birmingham's house, Moyasta, Co.Clare with Battering Ram and soldiers outside", and appears to be the same house.

This looks like the same house as in this archive image, titled T.Birmingham's house, Moyasta, Co.Clare with Battering Ram and soldiers outside

Compelling images

L_ROY_01767 and L_ROY_01768 both show one and the same house yet one is "Michael Connells"and the other "Mathias McGraths" ......neither resemble the above. Looks like all the tenants/houses are mixed up. Birmingham, McGrath, Connell- Partick and Michael- so its very hard to know exactly who's house is which.

I have created a new Album entitled Evictions where I have included all of our photos with the tags "Eviction" or "Evictions" to help contributors with an interest in this subject. [https://www.flickr.com/photos/nlireland/sets/72157659547823814]

O Mac I'm confused too! Please sort it all out, Professor O Mac. You are so very good at it !

For reference - Very full account of the McGrath day - trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/article/115459777 Interesting Red Herring - The Duke and Duchess of Saxe-Meiningen visited the McGrath house and family in September 1888, a couple of months after - trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/article/212688001 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georg_II,_Duke_of_Saxe-Meiningen