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In Recent Decades Investigations Into The 'land Question' Have Been Central To Contemporary Understanding Of Irish Society In The Nineteenth And Early Twentieth Centuries. In This Ambitious Historical Inquiry - Based On The Manuscript Records Of Over Sixty Landed Estates And A Wealth Of Published Material - Martin Dowling Uncovers The Fascinating Pre-history Of The Land Question From Its Seventeenth-century Origins To The Dawn Of The Era Of Legislative Reform.--jacket. Dowling Focuses On The Development Of The Anomalous 'ulster Custom' Of Tenant Right, By Which Tenants Claimed Property Rights Anterior To And More Fundamental Than Their Contracts With Landlords, Allowing Them To Exact A Payment Well In Excess Of The Yearly Rent From Those Who Succeeded To Their Farms. By Lending An Attentive Ear To The Changing And Conflicting Interpretations Of The Meaning Of Tenant Right, Dowling Reveals The Persistent Contradictions In The Irish Property System That Were Later To Explode In The Land War Of The 1880s.--jacket. Map Of Ulster And Environs -- Pt. I. Context. 1. Tenant Right And Agrarian Capitalism -- Pt. Ii. The Social Bases Of Tenant Right. 2. Historicity. 3. Production. 4. Visualit

Author

Martin W. Dowling

Publisher

Dublin, Ireland ; Portland, OR: Irish Academic Press

Published

1999

Language

EN

ISBN

9780716526568

Subjects

Economics, Management, History