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From: "Pádraig Mór Ó Gealagáin" <>
Subject: Re: Land Reform Acts
Date: Mon, 28 Nov 2005 12:15:49 -0500
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Candi,

The history I was taught is that the Gaelic order collasped following the
battle of Kinsale in 1601, From then onward came the foreign 'settlers'
principally the Cromwellian land grabbers.

But prior to this battle, all land was held in trust under Brehon laws for
all sept members by the chiefs of the many Septs [Clans] So, there were no
tenant farmers before the advent of the foreigners.

Pádraig Mór
An Sean Ghabair

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Subject: Land Reform Acts


>
> CJMax--
>
> I enjoyed your sharing of the Land Reform acts and perceptions of your
> Scottish people and Protestant landowners. I love to hear the transition
of
> history in Ireland from this list. As an American, I am lacking some in
the Irish
> history that would tell the stories of my people. I would like to make one
wee
> comment regarding the 1920's when the tenants were allowed to purchase the
> land they occupied.
>
> Please consider that, before the advent of the protestant Scottish and
> English Landlords, the Catholic tenant farmers, in many cases, were forced
to pay
> rent on land once held by their own families. So the fact that they were,
> generations later, allowed to purchase this same land, is not exactly a
> magnanimous gift.
>
>
>
> Cheers from sunny buy cool California,
>
> Candi Mccarthy

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