Book Title: The Material for Victory: The Memoirs of Andrew J. Kettle

Author: Andrew J. Kettle

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Book Description: Original edition edited with an Introduction, Biographical Note, and Appendix by Laurence J. Kettle. This edition edited with a New Introduction and Additional Biographical Note by Niamh Reilly. Annotations by Niamh Reilly and Jane O’Brien. The Material for Victory is available as a free-to-download ebook at https://aran.library.nuigalway.ie/handle/10379/17959. Print copies may be obtained by contacting: materialforvictory@universityofgalway.ie.

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A well-known champion of tenant farmers’ rights and land reform, Andrew J. Kettle (1833–1916) was a co-founder of the Land League with Michael Davitt and Charles Stewart Parnell, an advocate of Irish Home Rule, a progressive farmer, and a prolific writer of letters to the editor of The Freeman’s Journal. The Material for Victory is a remarkable document of closely observed, political microhistory recounting Kettle’s involvement in and observations about events leading up to and during the Land War of 1879–1882 and the decade that followed. The memoirs were edited by his son Laurence J. Kettle (1878-1960) and published for the first time in 1958 by C. J. Fallon. This new edition is presented with a new introduction and an additional biographical essay by Niamh Reilly, Established Professor of Political Science and Sociology at the University of Galway, along with comprehensive annotations by Reilly and Dr. Jane O’Brien (Discipline of History), and a Foreword by Michael D. Higgins, Uachtarán na hÉireann.

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Andrew J. Kettle

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Title
The Material for Victory: The Memoirs of Andrew J. Kettle
Author
Andrew J. Kettle
Editors
Laurence J. Kettle and Niamh Reilly
License

Icon for the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License

The Material for Victory: The Memoirs of Andrew J. Kettle Copyright © 2023 by Open Press at the University of Galway is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License, except where otherwise noted.

Open Press at the University of Galway

Second printing, September 2024

Primary Subject
History
Institution
University of Galway
Publisher
Open Press at the University of Galway
Publication Date
October 31, 2023
Digital Object Identifier (DOI)
https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.13025/hzmx-7t27
Ebook ISBN
9781911690153
Print ISBN
9781911690146