An Irish saying?

[A. Muse]

Not strictly genealogy, but maybe someone may have an idea......

When my Grandmother heard a loud 'bang' she often said 'there goes another landlord'.
I had forgotten all about it until a couple of weeks ago when I heard it used on the radio.
Does this date back to the time of the famine and clearances in Ireland?

My Grandmother was born in Cardiff in 1895 to a Welsh father, and a mother whose Catholic Irish parents
(Patrick Walsh and Margaret nee Hennessy) moved to Cardiff from Fermoy Ireland, sometime between 1858 -1860.

May be it was even a London saying? The family moved to East London in 1900. Any thoughts or has anyone else come across this saying?

 

[Helen7]

Could this be anything to do with the case featured in a recent episode of Who Do You Think You Are where an ancestor of Liz Carr was apparently involved in the shooting of a prominent landlord by a group of disgruntled tenant farmers in Ireland in the 1850s?

 

[A. Muse]

Well spotted, I thought I had heard it on the radio. Maybe that is where I heard it! Was this the origin of the saying?
I would still be interested if anyone else has come across this expression.

On a completely different tack Liz Carr's forebears were mariners on the Welsh Coast up as far as Cardigan. My Grandmother's Matthias GGF was a customs officer at Cardigan at the same time, I guess they would have met. Not sure what the interaction would have been...hostile and combative or acceptance?