Landlords and tenants in mid-Victorian Ireland
By: W.E. Vaughan.
Publisher: Clarendon Press; Oxford University Press
Published: 1994
Place of publication: Oxford; Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 339
Subjects: Land tenure -- Ireland -- History -- 19th century.; Farm tenancy -- Ireland -- History -- 19th century.; Landlord and tenant -- Ireland -- History -- 19th century.; Eviction -- Ireland -- History -- 19th century.
Description: This is a study of relations between landlords and tenants in Ireland between the great famine and the land war. Based on a remarkably wide range of primary sources, most notably collections of estate papers, it is a comprehensive and wide-ranging analysis, in which W. E. Vaughan explores evictions, rents, tenant right, estate management, agrarian outrages, and tenants' resistance to landlords.

Dr Vaughan questions many assumptions about landlord-tenant relations that hitherto have been uncritically accepted. In place of the conventional image of predatory and allpowerful landlords, and oppressed, impoverished tenants, Dr Vaughan presents a scholarly and nuanced picture of complex mutual accommodation, thus revising the traditional view of land relations in nineteenth-century Ireland.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [289]-321) and index.