Irish Land Acts

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The Irish Land Acts were a series of 19th- and early 20th-century laws that transformed land ownership in Ireland by enabling tenant farmers to purchase land from landlords, thereby undermining the traditional Anglo-Irish landlord class.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf land reform legislation
series of laws
appliesTo landlords in Ireland
tenant farmers in Ireland
appliesToTerritory Ireland NERFINISHED
country Ireland NERFINISHED
endTime early 20th century
field agricultural law
economic history of Ireland
property law
hasEffect addressed aspects of the Irish land question
altered rural social structure in Ireland
changed patterns of land tenure
contributed to decline of the landlord system
expanded peasant proprietorship
facilitated tenant purchase of land
increased owner-occupation of farms
reduced power of absentee landlords
undermined Anglo-Irish landlord class
weakened traditional estate system
hasPart Irish Land Act 1903 NERFINISHED
Irish Land Act 1909 NERFINISHED
Land Act 1923 NERFINISHED
Land Act 1933 NERFINISHED
Land Law (Ireland) Act 1881 NERFINISHED
Land Law (Ireland) Act 1887 NERFINISHED
Landlord and Tenant (Ireland) Act 1870 NERFINISHED
Purchase of Land (Ireland) Act 1885 NERFINISHED
historicalPeriod 19th century
20th century
influenced structure of rural society in independent Ireland
influencedBy Irish Parliamentary Party NERFINISHED
agrarian agitation in Ireland
legalForm Act of Parliament
legislativeBody Parliament of the United Kingdom NERFINISHED
location Ireland NERFINISHED
mainSubject agrarian question in Ireland
land reform in Ireland
purpose to enable tenants to buy their holdings
to reform land tenure in Ireland
to regulate relations between landlords and tenants
relatedTo Congested Districts Board for Ireland NERFINISHED
Home Rule movement NERFINISHED
Irish Land War NERFINISHED
Irish nationalism
Land Commission (Ireland) NERFINISHED
significantEvent transfer of land from landlords to tenants
startTime 1870

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Anglo-Irish declineCause Irish Land Acts
George Wyndham instrumentalIn Irish Land Acts
this entity surface form: Irish Land Purchase (Wyndham) Act 1903
Gladstone’s third Liberal government legislativeAchievement Irish Land Acts
this entity surface form: Irish Land Act 1881