A play about the Life of Michael Davitt
In Áras Inis Gluaire Friday 24th and Saturday 25th January 8pm €20
Tickets available at reception or on the links below
Click here for tickets for Friday 24th January
Click here for tickets for Saturday 25th January
Though the seeds of a Land League movement had been sown by James Daly, the editor of the Connacht Telegraph, in Mayo and Matthew Harris in Galway it was the invitation by James Daly to Michael Davitt which was crucial to the development, in the first instance, of The Land League of Mayo. Michael Davitt’s invitation to Charles Stewart Parnell and putting him at the head of the movement was a master stroke in expanding this movement to the National Land League which at its height had 200,000 members and 1800 branches in Ireland alone by the early 1880’s. The Land League would spread throughout the world to wherever Irish men women had immigrated to in whatever circumstances. What the Land League and the Lady’s Land League achieved in just three years after 800 years of British rule and oppression is staggering. It would result in 1914 that 316,000 Irish tenant farmers and their families now being land owners. This would constitute over half the population of this country. That this was pivotal, fundamental to the foundation of The Republic of Ireland is clear.
Our play “Let Justice Rise Though The Heaven’s Fall” is an effort to bring alive those dark days and shine a light on those great people, particularly Michael Davitt, who were instrumental in giving the ordinary people of this country hope for themselves and their families and a renewed pride in that joy of being Irish. It is not a sad story but one that sparkles with unbounding inspiration. The Land League and the Ladies Land League laid the ground work that would transport our country from the fourth world to the first world. Michael Davitt a cornerstone of the Land League movement was born in Mayo and gives us good reason to be proud of our county. But his life outside the Land League movement is also exceptional in its width and depth. Come and see the full story of Michael Davitt in Aras Inis Gluaire on the 24th and 25th of January and renew your knowledge of the times and legacy of the Land League movement and of your pride in the monumental historical figure that was and is Michael Davitt.
