land league

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land league - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Land League \Land League\ n.
     In Ireland, a combination of tenant farmers and other,
     organized, with Charles Stewart Parnell as president, in 1879
     with a view to the reduction of farm rents and a
     reconstruction of the land laws. -- Land"*lea`guer, n. --
     Land"*lea`guism, n.
  
           The Land League, of which Michael Davitt was the
           founder, originated in Mayo in August, and at a Dublin
           in October the organization was extended to all
           Ireland, with Parnell as president.      --Encyc. Brit.
     [Webster 1913 Suppl.]