Landlords and tenants in County Carlow, 1879-1960

This book chronicles the ending of landlordism in Carlow. In the depression of the late 1870s tenants were supported by town merchants in their efforts to treat with landlords while the Irish Parliamentary Party, led by Parnell, helped by exerting pressure on the British government. In 1881, Gladstone’ s government established land courts to adjudicate on rents and provided loans to the tenants to buy their holdings. Under the Wyndham Act of 1903 most landlords sold to their tenants. In the...