IRISH AGRARIAN TENUi 7$ 



o expensive a proceeding that no 

 rd woul Icavourcd 



by 



> the tenant who refused to consent 

 ue of h nts on ^ivin^ 



;. Moreover, he hoped, not only to 

 dii number of evictions but also to 



mote the practice on the part of the hind- 

 owners of giving longer leas- 



But this Act, too, including the " Br 



s a failure. Bt the years 



S8o out of 6,163 applications for corn- 

 ion only i, 808 were granted. The sum 

 il of the con ions paid amounted to 



17,304, of which more than half (/82,543) 

 r. 1 The average sum paid in com- 

 77 ; but an evicted Irish tenant 

 -Id not live on 77, since besides his farm 

 he ut one source of income to put his 



money at interest in a bank. 2 P> >m 



technical defects what really impaired the 

 efficacy of the Act was the economic situation 

 e. The prices of the most import 



products rose steadily till 



1878; and this fact supplied the preliminary 

 condition under whir place, 



rmer preferred to pa ncreased r 



a be evicted, and pocket the compen- 

 ion. The rent-roll of the landlord rose and 



1 idlord," pp. 510-512. 



O'Brien, " Parliamentary History," p. ; 



