photograph / Landlords’ War against the Homesteads of Ireland

Photograph, mounted on card. Titled Landlords’ War against the Homesteads of Ireland. Dedicated (without permission) to the Clare Landlords’ Defence Association. Photograph by Henry O’Shea. John P. Frost and family of twelve young children, outside the wooden hut erected for their shelter on the holding of his rack-rented neighbour Mr Solomon Frost, Rossmanagher, Six Mile Bridge, Co. Clare. Mr John P. Frost was evicted for the non-payment of an impossible rent of £117.10.0 for 33 acres of land (no abatement ever granted) and his homestead and farm offices (a property created by John P. Frost and his late father), and valued at £400.0.0, were demolished on 10 October 1887 by the landlord Mr H.V. D’Estere of Rosmanagher, Co. Clare, and Bournemouth.;