Terence Dooley

The Land for the People

The Land Question in Independent Ireland

Buch

In this first systematic analysis of the land question in independent Ireland. Dooley contends that agrarian agitation proved to be an important stimulus to political revolution during the period 1917 to 1923 and argues that the 1923 Land Act not only ended agrarian agitation but also made a major contribution to ending the Civil War. Dooley emphasizes 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… Mehr

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Produktdetails

ISBN: 978-1-904558-14-9
EAN: 9781904558149
Produktnummer: 1153422
Verlag: University College Dublin Press
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2004
Seitenangabe: 304 S.
Masse: H24.1 cm x B16.3 cm x D3.5 cm 698 g
Abbildungen: maps
Gewicht: 698
Sonstiges: Undergraduate

Über den Autor

Terence Dooley is a lecturer in the Department of Modern History, NUI Maynooth. He is author of the bestselling The Decline of the Big House in Ireland: A Study of Irish Landed Families, 1860-1960 (Dublin, 2000). He was commissioned in 2003 by the Department of the Environment and the Irish Georgian Society to write the report A Future for Irish Historic Houses? A Study of Fifty Houses (2003).