Land and Revolution: Nationalist Politics in the West of Ireland 1891-1921

by Fergus Campbell

Book Overview

In the 1890s, most of the inhabitants of the west of Ireland experienced great poverty and hardship, living - as they did - on farms that were too small to provide them with a reasonable standard of living. By 1921, however, the living conditions of many of them had been transformed by a series of Land Acts that revolutionized the system of land holding in Ireland. This book examines agrarian conflict in Ireland during the neglected period between...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199273243
• ISBN13: 9780199273249
• Release Date: April 2005
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 376 Pages
• Weight: 1.39 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.5" x 8.5"