What was chiefly required for agrarian peace was a recognition of that sense of partnership in the land--a relic of the tribal days--to which the Irish mind tenaciously adhered.

But, like most English concessions, it was not granted until too late, and then granted in the wrong way.

The natural result was that, when at last the recognition of partnership was enacted, it became a lever for a demand for complete ownership.

But this was the aftermath, for in the meantime, from the seed sown by English blundering, Ireland--native population and English garrison alike--had reaped the awful harvest of the Irish famine, which was followed by a long dark winter of discontent.

Upon the England that sowed the wind there was visited a whirlwind of hostility from the Irish race scattered throughout the globe.
It would be altogether outside the scope or purpose of this chapter to present a complete history of the remedial legislation applied to Irish land tenure.