ABSTRACT
At a public meeting to discuss measures to assist Dublin workers, held in the Mansion House, Davitt was first introduced to the newly appointed Liberal Lord Lieutenant, Lord Aberdeen and his wife, the meeting of whom is described in the excerpt from their memoirs on pp. Those who believed with myself that Peasant Proprietary-imtnensely preferable though it be to Land-lordism-would not meet to the full the final solution of the Irish social problem were, two short years ago, put down as Utopian dreamers, yet one of the most respected Bishops. Mr. Parnell advocates Peasant Proprietary. Mayo, which bore the major part of the burden during the fierce though incredibly short life of the Land League, retained not a vestige of the Land League organisation for many years after its suppression in 1881.
