Who Owns Ireland

The History Press Ltd

It is the barbed wire entanglement that tortures yet frees in the long story of this small island on \u2018the dark edge of Europe\u2019. It defined the national struggle for independence far more than any other single issue. The famine between 1845 and 1850 killed a million of the island\u2019s population of 8 million and drove another million into exile. This event chopped Irish history in half, demonstrating as nothing else could that without security of tenure for a normal life span you were at the mercy of landowners. This book is not about the famine, but about the key event that followed it: the extraordinary redistribution of land from mainly aristocratic landed estates to small farmers. This redistribution took over 150 years, from famine\u2019s end to the closure of the Land Commission in 1999, and\n\nWho Owns Ireland\nThe Hidden Truth of Land Ownership in Ireland\nFree UK delivery on this item.\n\nThis brand new item is available with free UK delivery using Royal Mail trac;