Title Landlords and tenants in mid-Victorian Ireland / W.E. Vaughan

Published Oxford : Clarendon Press ; Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1994

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Description 1 online resource (xxiii, 339 pages) Contents List of Tables -- Abbreviations -- 1 Landlords and Tenants (starting p. 1) -- 2 Evictions (starting p. 20) -- i Numbers, Fluctuations, and Incidence (starting p. 20) -- ii Evictions and Estate Management (starting p. 29) -- iii Obstacles to Evictions (starting p. 34) -- iv 'So Untruly and Unjustly Represented' (starting p. 39) -- 3 The Movement and Level of Rents (starting p. 44) -- i A Contemporary Puzzle (starting p. 44) -- ii The Significance of Rent Increases (starting p. 49) -- iii Fixing Rent Increases (starting p. 55) -- iv The Obstacles to Rent Increases (starting p. 63) -- 4 The Tenant-Right Custom (starting p. 67) -- i What was Tenant Right? (starting p. 67) -- ii The Extent of Tenant Right (starting p. 76) -- iii Tenant Right and Prosperity (starting p. 80) -- iv Tenant Right and Estate Management (starting p. 87) -- v The Land Act of 1870 (starting p. 93) -- 5 Estate Management (starting p. 103) -- i Ideas and Means (starting p. 103) -- ii Arrears and the Payment of Rents (starting p. 113) -- iii Estate Expenditure (starting p. 117) -- iv Why did Landlords not Spend More on Improvements? (starting p. 124) -- v Landlords' Indebtedness (starting p. 130) -- 6 Agrarian Outrages (starting p. 138) -- i 'A Bould Intrepid Gentry' (starting p. 138) -- ii What were Agrarian Outrages? (starting p. 141) -- iii Threatening Letters (starting p. 150) -- iv What Caused Agrarian Outrages? (starting p. 156) -- v The Importance of Agrarian Outrages (starting p. 161) -- 7 Resistance to Landlordism (starting p. 177) -- i Principles of Aggregation (starting p. 177) -- ii The Concealment of Criminals (starting p. 184) -- iii Ribbonism (starting p. 189) -- iv Why was there no Mass Movement against Landlordism before 1879? (starting p. 202) -- v What Caused the Land War? (starting p. 208) -- 8 Conclusion (starting p. 217) -- App. 1. Eviction Statistics, 1849-1887 (starting p. 229) -- App. 2. Civil Bill Ejectments and Ordinary Civil Bills, 1866-1886 (starting p. 232) -- App. 3. Counties Ranked According to Evictions, 1851-1880 (starting p. 233) -- App. 4. Counties Ranked According to Evictions during Four Periods, 1849-1881 (starting p. 235) -- App. 5. Fieris, Haberes, and Warrants Issued to Special Bailiffs for the Ejectment of Cottiers and Town Tenants, 1863-1886 (starting p. 237) -- App. 6. The Movement of Rents on Eleven Estates (starting p. 238) -- App. 7. Arrears on Twelve Estates (starting p. 241) -- App. 8. Rent Receipts on Twelve Estates (starting p. 244) -- App. 9. Agricultural Output, Rents, Potatoes, and the Cost of Labour, 1850-1886 (starting p. 247) -- App. 10. The Tenement Valuation (starting p. 251) -- App. 11. The Trinity College, Dublin leasing powers act (14 & 15 Vict., c. cxxviii (1 Aug. 1851) (starting p. 256) -- App. 12. Rents Based on the TCD Leasing Powers Act (starting p. 261) -- App. 13. Alternative Methods of Increasing Rents, 1850-1886 (starting p. 263) -- App. 14. Counties Ranked According to Valuation of Land per Acre, Percentage of Land under Tillage, and Valuation of Holdings (starting p. 267) -- App. 15. Counties Ranked According to Quality of their Rural Housing in 1851 and 1881 (starting p. 269) -- App. 16. Counties Ranked According to the Quality of their Land and Houses (starting p. 271) -- App. 17. Compensation under Sections 3, 4, and 7 of the Land Act, 1870 (starting p. 273) -- App. 18. Expenditure on Nine Estates, 1850-1880 (starting p. 277) -- App. 19. Agrarian Outrages and Other Outrages Returned by the Constabulary, 1844-1893 (starting p. 279) -- App. 20. Counties Ranked According to Serious Crime, 1851-1880 (starting p. 281) -- App. 21. Counties Ranked According to Agrarian Outrages, 1851-1880 (starting p. 283) -- App. 22. Counties Ranked According to Agrarian Outrages Committed during Four Crises, 1848-1881 (starting p. 285) -- App. 23. Spearman Ranking Coefficients of County Ranks (starting p. 287) -- Select Bibliography (starting p. 289) -- Index (starting p. 323) Summary This study of relations between landlords and tenants in Ireland between the Great Famine and the Land War explores evictions, rents, tenant rights, estate management, agrarian outrages, and tenants' resistance to landlords. It is based on a wide range of sources, including estate papers Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 289-321) and index Notes Print version record Subject Land tenure -- Ireland -- History -- 19th century Farm tenancy -- Ireland -- History -- 19th century Landlord and tenant -- Ireland -- History -- 19th century Eviction -- Ireland -- History -- 19th century Eviction Farm tenancy Land tenure Landlord and tenant Landlord and tenant -- Ireland -- History -- 19th century. Eviction -- Ireland -- History -- 19th century. Großgrundbesitzer Pächter Verwaltung Grondbezit. Sociale structuur. Ireland Ireland -- Land and property. Irland Großbritannien Genre/Form Electronic books History Form Electronic book

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