IRISH AGRARIAN TKNU) 77 



At the same ti: Irish Ian 



1 phase. Until 1870 

 cal moveu m 



ie constitutional 



r Butt, which sought by i'arliam. 



v action to of 



>vernni i ome Rule) and demanded 



above all things a reform in the system of 



agrarian tenu championed 



it are called 4< the tin. l-"s" fixity of 



1 free s:ile. Over agaii 

 s movement stood the revolutionary mo. 

 nt, which was t; from America, and 



which aimed at national independence, hanll) 

 thought of social reform, and preferred physical 

 force to other methods of agitation. Under the 

 influence of John Devoy and Michael Davitt 

 parties approached each other in 1878.' 

 The revolutionary party, whose backbone had 

 hitherto been formed by a small circle ofliterary 

 >ok hold of the agrarian question 

 > secure the interest of the n 

 It hoped, through the destruction of ; 

 to drive out the English colonix: 

 element from Ireland and to accomplish 

 lonalization of the land in which the primi- 

 Celtic forms of land tenure should reappc 

 This amalgamation of the agrarian question 

 h the national movement certainly i;ave the 

 ;\:luence with the masses; but at I 



'Barry O'Br i p. 166-169. 



