Land League hero was a true radical

Michael Davitt on a journey towards an exceptional career as a political and agrarian agitator

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A housing crisis? Homelessness? Unaffordable rents? Evictions? Sounds not unlike the Ireland of today. But the Ireland into which Michael Davitt was born was a lot worse. In 1846, he came into the world in one of the worst places to be born in Ireland – in Straide, Co Mayo, as famine raged and whole families died ...