This local history offers up an interesting account of the evictions of Rathcore; a small village situated in south County Meath, Republic of Ireland. The study reviews this entire infamous history and gives an interesting insight into the landlord-tenant relationship in Rathcore, land tenure uncertainty in Meath and Irish agriculture and farming practices from the mid-nineteenth century. Moreover, the study is loaded with a host of primary sources such as census records, maps, tenement valuation maps, photographs, sketches, depositions, poetry stanzas and newspaper articles for the period in...