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The Land for the People - The Land Question in Independent Ireland (Hardcover)
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The Land for the People - The Land Question in Independent Ireland (Hardcover)
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While the land question from the mid-Victorian period to the eve of
the First World War plays a prominent role in Irish historiography,
historians have tended to overlook its importance in
post-independence Ireland and have generally assumed that there was
no land question after 1922. Terence Dooley debunks this myth. In
this first systematic analysis of the land question in independent
Ireland, he contends that agrarian agitation proved to be an
important stimulus to political revolution during the period 1917
to 1923. He assesses the dangers which agitation posed for the
Provisional Government after 1922 and argues that the 1923 Land Act
not only ended agrarian agitation but also made a major
contribution to ending the Civil War. Dooley emphasises the
significance of Irish Land Commission to Irish rural life in an
extensive analysis of the working of the Land Commission after its
reconstitution in 1923. The commission became the most important
(and controversial) government body operating in independent
Ireland. It acted as a facilitator of social engineering,
compulsorily acquiring lands from traditional landlords, large
farmers, graziers and negligent farmers and passing them on to
smallholders, ex-employees of acquired estates, evicted tenants and
their representatives, members of the pre-Truce IRA and the
landless. It migrated over 14,500 farmers onto lands totalling
almost 400,000 acres. The continued hunger for land and the impact
of land acquisition and division on so many people ensured that the
land reform question remained one of the most potent political
issues until the early 1980s.
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