Table of Contents

ContentsAcknowledgementsIntroduction: Dana HearneTHE TALE OF A GREAT SHAMAntecedents of the Land LeagueThe FamineThe Land LeagueThe Working of the Land League Rent at the Point of the Bayonet The Ladies' Land LeagueThe Land ActThe No Rent ManifestoThe End of the Land LeagueThe Ballina and Phoenix Park Murders The End of the Ladies' Land*League Sequel of the Land LeagueConclusion Appendices Bibliography Notes

About the Author

Dana Hearne was born in Dublin in 1943. She graduated from University College Dublin and Trinity College with a B.A. Degree in English and French. She then moved to McGill University, Montreal where she received a M.A. in English Literature. She is now completing her Ph.D. in Social and Political Thought from York University, Toronto. She lectured in Concordia University, Montreal where she taught History, Literature and Feminist Theory. The Tale of a Great Sham is her first complete work. Margaret Ward is currently honorary senior lecturer in History with the School of History, Anthropology, Philosophy and Politics at Queen's University Belfast.

Reviews

'In Markievicz's urging of women to take up their responsibilities and go their own way, we hear once again the voice of Anna Parnell, a woman who not only inspired a generation of women in the 19th century, but who also influenced women activists in the first decades of the 20th century. Anna Parnell was a new woman - a radical, a feminist, and the first modern, militant Irish woman activist.' Irish Times, August 2020 ||| 'It is difficult, at this remove, to understand how it took nearly 80 years for this book to be published. The original manuscript by Anna Parnell lay in the National Library for many years. Dana Hearne, who has lectured at Concordia University in Montreal, published the original manuscript with extensive annotations in 1986. She describes in her superb, updated introduction the "exhilarating experience" at finding in the Manuscripts Room what had been labelled an "unpublishable" narrative.' Irish Independent, August 2020