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• 1 media/Paper-Grunge-Background-103-625x351.jpg 2016-03-02T13:11:07-08:00 Origins of Landlords and the Land They Owned 26 Landlords plain 2016-04-14T12:58:53-07:00 According to Brian Graham’s and Lindsay Proudfoot’s 1992 Journal of Urban History titled “Landlords, Planning, and Urban Growth in Eighteenth- and Early Nineteenth-Century Ireland,” “many landlords were the descendants of the adventurers, soldiers, and government officials who have been the principal beneficiaries of the active land market inaugurated by the seventeen-century Plantation and Cromwellian land confiscations.” In the essay titled "Irish Potato Famine and the Murder of Landlords" Colm Sweeney and Susanna Lambeck claim that “protestant landlords of Anglo-Irish descendancy installed by Cromwell owned 90% of all land in Ireland in 1860.” If their research for the popular website Enjoy Irish Culture is correct, then landlords seem to have occupied a large amount of land, including the productive land, in Ireland. Certainly more scholarly sources, such as Graham and Proudfoot support this idea by saying that “landlords owned 75% of all productive land in Ireland,” which is a striking incident to think about because it explicitly explains that the rest of the population in Ireland did not own much of the land.
  
  Works Cited
  Graham, Brian, & Lindsay J. Proudfoot. “Landlords, Planning, and Urban Growth in Eighteenth-and Early Nineteenth-Century Ireland.” Journal of Urban History 18.3 (1992): 308. Academic Search Premier. Web. 11 Feb. 2016.
  
  Sweeney, Colm, and Susanna Lambeck. "Irish Potato Famine and the Murder of Landlords." Nov. 2014. Enjoy Irish Culture.com. Web. 13 Feb. 2016.

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