Land

Landlords dominated Irish society during the nineteenth century but during the period reviewed in this book their power was in serious decline. This chapter looks at the composition of the great Irish landowner class (those landlords who owned estates of more than 10,000 acres), and considers to what extent the composition of this elite group changed between 1881 and 1918. The chapter also examines the reasons why the Irish landlord class declined in terms of their power and wealth in the context of the declining power of landlordism in Europe more generally. The chapter suggests that the Irish landlords may be partly responsible for their own decline because they did not reinvest sufficiently in their own estates and that if they had done so they may have been able to win the continued support of their tenants more effectively

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