IRISH AGRARIAN TENUK 

 ul lords bought out their tenants from 



ient of the year 1860 attempt* 

 vision ot ownership by regarding 

 n tenant and landlord as 

 rs of contract. In ;i further enactnv 

 u \v t sou ;ht to protect the tenant 



provements made with 



nsent of t should give the 



ten to compensation. 1 Both Acts 



nee a simplification of the law 



d to a position of t 



number of evictions increased. 

 c. following table gives the figures for 1866 

 - : 



1860 1861 1863 1864 1865 1866 

 .ed ... 636 1,092 1,734 1,924 942 795* 



These evictions were largely necessary in the 



:cral interests of cultivation, for the enlarge- 



nt of the holdings was urgently called for; 



but they always led to a great embitterment 



among the people, from which sprang agrar 



1 Lord Duffcri:. 



47 ft seq. ; Brycc, " Two Centuries ot 

 58-9; Barry O'Br rliamentary History 



pp. 103, tt seq. 113, 1 15 ; 



W. N< Two Reports for the Irish Government 



on the History of the Landlord and Tenant Question in 

 Irela 



>h Landlord," p. 522. 



