"The law gave those landlords extensive power at the present time, and unless they went in for a revolution he confessed he did not see how they were going to bring about a radical reform of the system of land tenure in this country."
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Members of the Parliament of the United KingdomPolitical activistsPoliticians from IrelandAnglicansIrish nationalists
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Speech in Tralee (15 November 1878), quoted in Michael Davitt, The Fall of Feudalism in Ireland; Or, The Story of the Land League Revolution (1904), p. 137
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Charles Stewart Parnell
Charles Stewart Parnell (27 June 1846 – 6 October 1891) was an Irish Protestant landowner, nationalist political leader, land reform agitator, Home Rule MP in the Parliament of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and founder and leader of the Irish Parliamentary Party.
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