The Scottish Review, Vol. 29: January and April, 1897 (Classic Reprint) - Tapa blanda

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Excerpt from The Scottish Review, Vol. 29: January and April, 1897

A considerable change passed over the Irish Land System during the period that, broadly speaking, was measured by the long and memorable reign of George III. The worst provisions of the Penal Code were abolished; Catholic Ireland was admitted within the pale of the State the Irish Catholic was enabled to acquire land, and to obtain a permanent estate in it. The number of Catholic landlords was much increased; a class of large Catholic farmers grew up, and Pro testant ascendency was in some degree balanced by a counter poise in landed relations. The political and social influence of the Protestant landlords, owing to the independence won by the Revolution of 1782, was, at the same time, greater than it had ever been; and the Catholic occupiers of their estates6 The Land System of Ireland.

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