The Irish Land League of 1879 renewed the campaign, organizing rent strikes and boycotts and resisting evictions. |
Dispossession from small rural landholdings and the decline in the viability of many smallholdings in the 19th century led to widespread evictions. |
Problems include stolen deposits, faulty boilers and central heating, excessive charges for cleaning, harassment and illegal evictions. |
Many of these islanders ended up on the eastern seaboard of Canada, either voluntarily or by forced evictions. |
The tenants believed that Delgadillo was the white knight who would step in and save them from evictions. |
It was, he said apologetically, one of 22 evictions he had to carry out that day. |