Irish Land Acts
The Land Acts were a series of measures to deal with the question of peasant proprietorship of land in Ireland in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Five such acts were introduced by the government of the United Kingdom between 1870 and 1909. Further acts were introduced by the government of the Irish Free State after 1922.
Read more about Irish Land Acts: Bessborough Commission, Agricultural Depression, Second Irish Land Act, 1881, Irish Land (Purchase) Act 1885, Irish Land Act 1887 (Balfour), Wyndham Land (Purchase) Act 1903, Labourers (Ireland) Act 1906, Free State Land Acts, Land and Conveyancing Law Reform Act, 2009
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