School: Baile Locha Riabhach (Clochar)
- Location:
- Loughrea, Co. Galway
- Teacher: An tSr. M. Proinnsias
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0060, Page 0271
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- (continued from previous page)began to evict them, sometimes at the rate of twenty and thirty families per day.In April 1879, Michael Davitt, who had been out of prison since December, 1877, started the land agitation at Irishtown in County Mayo. In the following summer (1880) about sixty-eight meetings were held in the West of Ireland to further the cause. The first great meeting in the County Galway was held at Loughrea on January 6, 1880. The secretary, Father Egan, c.c., and a lay committee organised it, having been backed up by Dr. Duggan, whose whole heart was in the movement. Rev. Father Carroll, adm, presided, and besides, Michael Davitt, Mitchel Henry, M.P. for Galway, Matt Harriss, and a number of the clergy spoke. Clanricarde, amongst other landlords, was invited, and to the invitation he sent the following reply:"London, December 29, 1879. -
Gentlemen, I have received the invitation you have been good enough to send me to attend a "Grand Land Meeting" at Loughrea on the 6th prose. As I feel I should deserve most severe censure for attending a meeting so ill-timed in the actual disturbed(continues on next page)
