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. Homestead of John P. Frost, wife and twelve young children, of Ranosmanagher, Six-Mile-Bridge, Co. Clare, held successfully against evicting force of over 100 armed constables on 11 January 1887, but taken by a superior force on 28 January, and re-taken on the same day by the evicted tenant, and held by him in the face of five prosecutions, two convictions, and imprisonment under the Coercion Act etc, until 5 September when it was recaptured by an armed expedition for the Landlord, Mr H. V. D’Estere of Rosmanagher, Co. Clare, and Bournemouth, and on the 10 November was demolished by the Landlord under the protection of Military and Police. Extent of Holding, 33 acres. Rent of £117.10.0 (no abatement of this rent was ever granted). Poor law valuation £78 0s. 0d. The homestead and property in out-houses, offices etc were created by the tenent and his father. Estimated value of tenent’s property destroyed by this savage act £400.;