H-Albion has just published a review of Fergus Campbell, _Land and Revolution: Nationalist Politics in the West of Ireland, 1891-1921_, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005. I believe it somewhat bears upon the ongoing discussion. >From the review: Campbell's stage is the west of Ireland at the turn of the twentieth century where the plight of the smallest farmers had not been adequately dealt with by ameliorative land legislation. The 1881 Land Law Act might have reduced rents, and subsequent acts introduced more attractive occupier-purchase terms, but this did not alter the standard of living for a large number of small tenants still living on uneconomic holdings. In the Westport poor law union, for instance, there were four thousand families living on farms valued at less than �8, while sixty-six graziers occupied nearly one hundred thousand acres between them (p. 9). Access to economic holdings rather than the amount of rent was the key issue, and the United Irish League (UIL), founded by William O'Brien in 1898, sought to redistribute the large grass farms of the graziers to the smallest tenant farmers in the west of Ireland. See http://h-net.msu.edu/cgi-bin/logbrowse.pl?trx=vx&list=H-Albion&month=0606&we ek=b&msg=7EyP%2bTYbJpzsE5r8quPZTA&user=&pw= Yuri Tulupenko