{"id":5541,"date":"2013-07-13T16:50:00","date_gmt":"2013-07-13T16:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bikeroute.com\/NationalBicycleGreenwayNews\/2013\/07\/13\/occupy-ireland-how-they-did-it-in-1886-2\/"},"modified":"2023-10-18T20:06:58","modified_gmt":"2023-10-19T03:06:58","slug":"occupy-ireland-how-they-did-it-in-1886-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bikeroute.com\/NationalBicycleGreenwayNews\/2013\/07\/13\/occupy-ireland-how-they-did-it-in-1886-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Occupy Ireland \u2013 How they did it in 1886"},"content":{"rendered":"
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My training rides have been taking me deeper and deeper into the Irish countryside. \u00a0And as they do, I\u2019ve been pedaling deeper into its history. My journey from Dublin yesterday, for example, took me to a national landmark called Eviction Cottage.\u00a0A small home\u00a0restored in 2000,\u00a0it had been destroyed by its landlords in 1886 to keep the evicted family from moving back in. It represents the last eviction in this part of Ireland. This was a regular occurrence\u00a0 until the\u00a0Irish Land League managed to get reasonable land laws put in place to protect the many farmers who had suffered crop failures\u00a0\u00a0from property owners most of whom lived in England.<\/div>\n
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The tenants right activists \u00a0did so with the strength of numbers. Whenever an eviction was set to occur, great numbers of people were always on hand for the actual event. The landlords were mocked and embarrassed with the \u00a0carnival atmosphere (including large law enforcement battalions as the evicted party hauled their possessions away, in the case below, on a horse drawn cart)\u00a0that would result.<\/div>\n
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Such property owners also then found their businesses boycotted. They also found themselves unable to rent their property to anyone because such renters would be the the subject of great scorn,<\/div>\n
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This is what the home looked like before it was restored.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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The horizontal log held in place by three standing logs \u00a0you see here, swings back and forth to serve as a \u00a0battering ram. Used to destroy the homes of its day, it\u00a0stands adjacent to the cottage.<\/div>\n
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1847 \u2014 The worst year of the potato blight, Ireland exported enough food to feed itself:<\/strong><\/p>\n

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4,000 ships carrying peas, beans, rabbits, salmon, honey, and potatoes left Ireland for English ports.<\/div>\n
9,992 Irish cattle sent to England.<\/div>\n
4,000 horses and ponies sent to England.<\/div>\n
Approximately 1,000,000 gallons of butter sent to England.<\/div>\n
Approximately 1,700,000 gallons of grain-derived alcohol sent to England.<\/div>\n
source: \u201cIrish Central<\/a>\u201d magazine \u00a0editor,\u00a0Patricia Harty\u00a0in this blog post of hers<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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2014 Ireland now exports enough food to feed 36 million people (<\/strong>source<\/a>)!<\/strong><\/div>\n
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The value of exports of Irish food and drink was almost \u20ac9 billion in 2011. This equates to the Republic of Ireland\u2019s farmers producing enough food for an estimated 36 million people. There are ambitious plans in place to expand that to 50m people by 2020 under the Government led Food Harvest 2020 strategy (see www.agriculture.gov.ie ).<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0THX 4 all of U!!<\/div>\n
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