Land Is All That Matters: The Struggle That Shaped Irish History by Myles Dungan leaves her home and journeys

leaves her home and journeys across the sea to Venezuela

one richer with colour

and a chance to reflect on how our food gets to the table

throughout everything his childhood in care threw at him

Land Is All That Matters: The Struggle That Shaped Irish History by Myles Dungan leaves her home and journeysIn eighteenth and nineteenth century Europe everyone lived off the land in one way or another. In Ireland, however, almost everyone lived on the land as well. Agriculture was the only economic resource for the vast majority of the population outside the north east of the country. Land was vital. But most of it was owned by a class of Protestant, English and often aristocratic landlords. The dream of having more control over their farms, even of owning