- Location
- East meath/dublin
I own most of the land that i farm but still rent about a third of the total . Nearly all of it is conacre one crop at a time reviewed every year .
I come from a long tradition of renter conacre all the land we own was got the hard way bought with money made with spuds and grain on rented ground over 3 generations so i will always side with the tenants
Over here in Ireland we have a long history of small farms and land ownership
The land wars of the ninteenth century and the land acts introduced by the British goverment which gave tenants 99 year loans to buy their holdings of nearly bankrupt landlords who were badly hit by rent strikes was the start of the end of the big estates .
Many more landlords were burnt out during the war of independce and their estates split up by the new free state gov after hostilities ended
De Valera administered the coup de grace in the thirties when he established the land commission to complete the distribution of the estates among small farmers. He also cancelled the payments on the 99 year loans saying that we shouldnt have to pay for our own land. Didnt go down to well with the British but the got over it .
Having recently watched the Poldark series on netflix its obvious that the ordainary rural people in england fared no better than the Irish peasantry but rural revolt and land reform never really got going .
Its all very well having a pop at glasshouse but if you were royally shafted the way he was you might change your view . And maybe the right to buy might be a bit shady but how morally right is land ownership of large tracts of land aquired free from a monarch hundreds of years ago .
All people will have their own views .
I come from a long tradition of renter conacre all the land we own was got the hard way bought with money made with spuds and grain on rented ground over 3 generations so i will always side with the tenants
Over here in Ireland we have a long history of small farms and land ownership
The land wars of the ninteenth century and the land acts introduced by the British goverment which gave tenants 99 year loans to buy their holdings of nearly bankrupt landlords who were badly hit by rent strikes was the start of the end of the big estates .
Many more landlords were burnt out during the war of independce and their estates split up by the new free state gov after hostilities ended
De Valera administered the coup de grace in the thirties when he established the land commission to complete the distribution of the estates among small farmers. He also cancelled the payments on the 99 year loans saying that we shouldnt have to pay for our own land. Didnt go down to well with the British but the got over it .
Having recently watched the Poldark series on netflix its obvious that the ordainary rural people in england fared no better than the Irish peasantry but rural revolt and land reform never really got going .
Its all very well having a pop at glasshouse but if you were royally shafted the way he was you might change your view . And maybe the right to buy might be a bit shady but how morally right is land ownership of large tracts of land aquired free from a monarch hundreds of years ago .
All people will have their own views .
