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Star of the Sea : A Postcolonial/Postmodern Voyage into the Irish Famine

Origins of Landlords and the Land They Owned

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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