Product Description
by Tony McCarthy (Editor), Annie Tindley (Editor), Terence Dooley (Editor)
This volume explores the provenance, mechanisms and impact of land legislation and land reform in Ireland from the 1800 to 2024, one of the dominant issues in Irish politics, society, economy and culture through the whole period.
Author Biography
Tony Mc Carthy is a PhD graduate of the Department of History, Maynooth University. He is a qualified accountant and stockbroker and holds an MBA from University College Dublin. He is author of the of The Shaws of Terenure, a nineteenth-century Dublin merchant family. He is currently working on a book on George Wyndham's time in Ireland. Annie Tindley is Professor of British and Irish Rural History at Newcastle University and since 2020 Head of the School of History, Classics & Archaeology. Her work interrogates land issues in the modern period including ownership, management and reform. Terence Dooley is Head of Department, Full Professor of History, and Director of the Centre for the Study of Historic Irish Houses and Estates at the Department of History, Maynooth University.
