Donnacha Sean Lucey obtained his PhD from The National University of Ireland, Maynooth, and is currently an Irish Research Council for the Humanities and Social Sciences (IRCHSS) Fellow at the Centre for Contemporary Irish History, Trinity College Dublin.

• Introduction; Background to the land war in Kerry; Agricultural depression and the emergence of radical agitation; Land League agitation; The Land League, Fenianism and agrarian violence; The Irish National League and the revival of Home Rule, October 1882 to September 1885; The operation of the National League; The Irish National League and Moonlighters: Agrarian violence during the home rule period, 1885-6; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index.

'Dr Lucey's exemplary account of this phase of Kerry's local history will be invaluable to future historians as they attempt to unravel complexities in our island's story.' Irish Catholic 8 March 2012 'Regional studies such as this expose the anomalies present in national surveys, and Lucey's extensive primary research and thorough engagement with the secondary literature deepens our knowledge of the complexities of post-Famine Irish society. - This is a book of significance. The research it embodies, and the arguments put forward by Lucey, all shed further light on a most intriguing period of Irish history. It shows that intra-class relations and the tensions played an important role in popular politics, with the lower classes eventually being the losers in the story of the Land War.' Reviews in History 2012