An extensive, scholarly biography of Irish leader Michael Davitt after his involvement with the Irish Land League.

Tells the story of a collaboration between two giants of late c19th Irish nationalism: John Devoy and Michael Davitt

In 19th century Ireland, a new crop failure threatened the land and its people. This time round, a radical idea began to take hold: that famine was neither divine nor natural in origin but a political event, based on unequal power relations.

Draws from a wide range of disciplines to bring together 36 leading scholars writing about 400 years of modern Irish history