‘Meath is rich, Meath’s workers are poor’

The Kildare and Meath farm labour strike, 1919. By Terry Dunne The country lanes and byways across the plains of Meath and Kildare were the setting for a showdown in the summer of 1919. According to a confidential police report, there was ‘serious dislocation’: ‘The Agricultural Show at Navan had to be abandoned, the fairs ... Read more

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