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Thread #45911   Message #3786468
Posted By: Keith A of Hertford
21-Apr-16 - 12:12 PM
Thread Name: BS: Easter Rising - April 24-29, 1916
Subject: RE: Easter Rising - April 24-29, 1916
Sorry Fergie, but the fact is that none of your points stand up.
I "dismissed" them only by showing them to be false.
You have been taken in by propaganda in place of hard history.

Jim, I do not claim expertise in Irish history, but have backed everything I say with quotes from acknowledged experts.
Do you claim that you and Fergie know more than the professional historians whose statements refute your views?

Are you claiming that Wiki is wrong in this statement?

"The Ashbourne Act of 1885 started a limited process of allowing tenant farmers buy their freeholds, which was greatly extended following the 1902 Land Conference, by the 1903 Wyndham Land Purchase Act. Augustine Birrell's Act of 1909 allowed for compulsory purchase, and also allowed the purchase and division of untenanted land that was being directly farmed by the owners.

These Acts allowed tenants first to attain extensive property rights on their leaseholdings and then to purchase their land off their landlords via UK government loans and the Land Commission. The 1903 Act gave Irish tenant farmers a government-sponsored right to buy, which is still not available in Britain itself today."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Land_War