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In the period 1903 to 1909 over 200,000 small peasant tenant-farmers became "owneroccupiers" of their holdings under the Acts. [28] By 1914 75% of occupiers were buying out their landlords under the 1903 Act and the later Birrell Land Purchase (Ireland) Act (1909) which extended the 1903 Act by allowing for the compulsory purchase of tenanted ...
The UK Parliament at Westminster passed further Land Acts for Northern Ireland after the Partition of Ireland, such as the Northern Ireland Land Act 1925 (15 & 16 Geo. 5. c. 34), the Northern Ireland Land Act 1929 (19 & 20 Geo. 5. c. 14) and the Northern Ireland Land Purchase (Winding Up) Act 1935 (25 & 26 Geo. 5. c. 21).
The Irish National Land League (Irish: Conradh na Talún), also known as the Land League, was an Irish political organisation of the late 19th century which organised tenant farmers in their resistance to exactions of landowners. Its primary aim was to abolish landlordism in Ireland and enable tenant farmers to own the land they worked on.
The Land War (Irish: Cogadh na Talún) [1] was a period of agrarian agitation in rural Ireland (then wholly part of the United Kingdom) that began in 1879.It may refer specifically to the first and most intense period of agitation between 1879 and 1882, [2] or include later outbreaks of agitation that periodically reignited until 1923, especially the 1886–1891 Plan of Campaign and the 1906 ...
Currently, cattle farming remains one of Ireland's most prominent sectors, with over 6.5 million cows on Irish farms, accounting for over 25 percent of agriculture output. Ireland's national breeding herd comprises 1.5 million dairy cows and 889,000 suckler cows , making Ireland's suckler cow herd the third largest in the world, following ...
The story of how hundreds of local people, mostly peasant rural dwellers, died of starvation, remains unrecorded. Probably the greatest tragedy of all surrounding An Gorta Mór was the sale by farming communities of large amounts of eggs and animals in order to pay rent to their local landlord, while they themselves, and their neighbours, were ...
Thousands packed into the Eikon Exhibition Centre to protest against planned changes to inheritance tax on family farms.
Larger commercial farmers were characterised as "landlords" or "grazers" simply because they had more land than the average. The Irish Land Act 1909, fostered by the Liberal Chief Secretary for Ireland, Augustine Birrell, allowed for tenanted land purchase where the owner was unwilling to sell, to be bought by the commission by compulsory purchase.