Land Is All That Matters: The Struggle That Shaped Irish History

Bloomsbury presents Land Is All That Matters written and read by Myles Dungan. In eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Europe everyone lived 'off the land' in one way or another. In Ireland, however, almost everyone lived 'on the land' as well. Agriculture was the only economic resource for the vast majority of the population outside the north-east of the country. Land was vital. But most of it was owned by a class of Protestant, English and often aristocratic landlords. The dream of having m...