1st Edition

Ireland and the Land Question 1800-1922

By Michael J. Winstanley Copyright 1984
68 Pages
by Routledge

68 Pages
by Routledge

68 Pages
by Routledge

This pamphlet makes use of the most recent revisionist literature to reassess the view, much propagated by nationalist sources, that Ireland was a land of impoverished peasants oppressed by English laws and absentee English landlords. The land question has always been closely linked to the development of Irish national consciousness, and greatly exercised the minds of English politicians in the... Read more
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`An excellent example of the genre - concisely, yet exhaustively, does what the series sets out to do ... ' - G.R. Elton, Cambridge University

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