Who Owns Ireland

Author : Kevin Cahill
Publisher : The History Press
Page : 409 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2021-07-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9780750986618

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Who Owns Ireland by Kevin Cahill Pdf

It is the barbed wire entanglement that tortures yet frees in the long story of this small island on 'the dark edge of Europe'. It defined the national struggle for independence far more than any other single issue. The famine between 1845 and 1850 killed a million of the island's population of 8 million and drove another million into exile. This event chopped Irish history in half, demonstrating as nothing else could that without security of tenure for a normal life span you were at the mercy of landowners. This book is not about the famine, but about the key event that followed it: the extraordinary redistribution of land from mainly aristocratic landed estates to small farmers. This redistribution took over 150 years, from famine's end to the closure of the Land Commission in 1999, and was achieved with some civility and far less violence than the actual independence struggle itself. Who Owns Ireland is a startling expose of Ireland's most valuable asset: its land. Kevin Cahill's investigations reveal the breakdown of ownership of the land itself across all thirty-two counties, and show the startling truth about the people and institutions who own the ground beneath our feet.

Author : Kevin Cahill
Publisher : The History Press
Page : 379 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2021-07-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780750986618

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Who Owns Ireland by Kevin Cahill Pdf

THE HISTORY OF IRELAND IS LACERATED, TOP TO BOTTOM, BY LAND. It is the barbed wire entanglement that tortures yet frees in the long story of this small island on ‘the dark edge of Europe’. It defined the national struggle for independence far more than any other single issue. The famine between 1845 and 1850 killed a million of the island’s population of 8 million and drove another million into exile. This event chopped Irish history in half, demonstrating as nothing else could that without security of tenure for a normal life span you were at the mercy of landowners. This book is not about the famine, but about the key event that followed it: the extraordinary redistribution of land from mainly aristocratic landed estates to small farmers. This redistribution took over 150 years, from famine’s end to the closure of the Land Commission in 1999, and was achieved with some civility and far less violence than the actual independence struggle itself. Who Owns Ireland is a startling expose of Ireland’s most valuable asset: its land. Kevin Cahill’s investigations reveal the breakdown of ownership of the land itself across all thirty-two counties, and show the startling truth about the people and institutions who own the ground beneath our feet.

Author : Kevin Cahill
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 472 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Political Science
ISBN : UOM:39015056509915

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Who Owns Britain by Kevin Cahill Pdf

A startling expose of Britain's most valuable asset - its land. Kevin Cahill's investigations reveal how the 6000 or so landowners -mostly aristocrats, but also large institutions and the Crown - own about 40 million acres, more than half the country, and have maintained their grip on the land right throughout the 20th century.

Author : Kevin Cahill
Publisher : Random House
Page : 1206 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2015-04-16
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781780578408

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Who Owns the World by Kevin Cahill Pdf

Who Owns the World is the first ever compilation of landowners and landownership structures in every single one of the world's 197 states and 66 territories. It covers the history of landownership as far as written history will allow and shows the division of landownership in every region of the globe. Packed with revelatory information, the book: * identifies the person who owns the largest proportion of the world's land and documents that person's landholdings; * provides details of the next 25 top landowners; * reveals that aristocratic families own over 60 per cent of Europe's land mass and receive most of the EC's agricultural subsidy allowance; * documents the vast landholdings of the four largest religious groups: the Catholic Church and the other Christian churches, the Islamic trusts, and the temple possessions of the Hindus and Buddhists; * details the landownership structure of all the countries of the British Commonwealth; * contains a complete survey of the historic record of landownership, starting in Mesopotamia/Iraq in 8000 BC; * lists many of the world's great Domesdays, going back to the earliest, in Ptolemaic Egypt; * includes an analysis of the legal structures that have reduced 85 per cent of the earth's population to serfdom. This is a breathtaking tome of huge political, economic and social importance. It will revolutionise our understanding of our planet, its history and its land.

Author : Matt Cooper
Publisher : Gill & Macmillan Ltd
Page : 511 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2023-10-26
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780717196029

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Who Really Owns Ireland by Matt Cooper Pdf

Through centuries of oppression, we were tenants in our own land. Today, despite our independence and new-found affluence, we are in the midst of a crisis. The question of who owns Ireland is once again taking on a sense of urgency. Is the land of Ireland still for the people of Ireland? In a deep and far-reaching investigation, journalist, broadcaster and No. 1 bestselling author Matt Cooper examines the power wielded by those who control the land where we live, work and play. Who are they, how did they acquire so much and what does it mean for ordinary citizens when the ownership of key resources like shopping centres, wind farms, forestry and data centres comes from outside? This is a story about how power and money influence and control the present and the future of Ireland ... sometimes for good and sometimes for bad. Filled with riveting detail, this compelling story of who really owns Ireland is an essential account of the issues that affect every single one of us living on this island.

Author : Richard English
Publisher : Pan Macmillan
Page : 640 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2008-09-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9780330475822

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Irish Freedom by Richard English Pdf

Richard English's brilliant new book, now available in paperback, is a compelling narrative history of Irish nationalism, in which events are not merely recounted but analysed. Full of rich detail, drawn from years of original research and also from the extensive specialist literature on the subject, it offers explanations of why Irish nationalists have believed and acted as they have, why their ideas and strategies have changed over time, and what effect Irish nationalism has had in shaping modern Ireland. It takes us from the Ulster Plantation to Home Rule, from the Famine of 1847 to the Hunger Strikes of the 1970s, from Parnell to Pearse, from Wolfe Tone to Gerry Adams, from the bitter struggle of the Civil War to the uneasy peace of the early twenty-first century. Is it imaginable that Ireland might – as some have suggested – be about to enter a post-nationalist period? Or will Irish nationalism remain a defining force on the island in future years? 'a courageous and successful attempt to synthesise the entire story between two covers for the neophyte and for the exhausted specialist alike' Tom Garvin, Irish Times

Author : Matt Cooper
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 599 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2009-10
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781844881673

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Who Really Runs Ireland? by Matt Cooper Pdf

Having money and not having it; making it and losing it; using it and misusing it; giving it and taking it . . . this is the story of Ireland during the boom, described in jaw-dropping detail in Who Runs Ireland? Leading journalist Matt Cooper has consistently broken stories that the powerful would prefer had not been disclosed. Now, he identifies the most powerful people in Ireland during the Celtic Tiger era, describes how they interacted with each other to mutual benefit, and reveals who are the few to retain their power amid the debris arising from the bursting of our economic bubble. In particular, Cooper focuses on the role of new-found wealth in Ireland and examines how the volume of money sloshing about influenced the exercise of power, sometimes in ways that were to the detriment of the larger society. Cooper reveals stories you will not have read before, makes the connections you may not have spotted and provides insights and explanations to stories you may have forgotten that uncover what really goes on.

Author : Frank Connolly
Publisher : Gill & Macmillan Ltd
Page : 434 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2017-11-03
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780717175482

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NAMA-Land by Frank Connolly Pdf

The National Asset Management Agency (NAMA) was created in 2009 to contain the spiralling fallout from Ireland's property crisis. Its job as Ireland's 'bad bank' was to act impartially to get the maximum return from the sale of assets for the Irish people and help pay down the state's massive debts. Now, after NAMA has presided over the transfer of €70 billion in assets, the Irish economy is once again beginning to recover. But the basic arithmetic of assets valued and assets sold hides a multitude of sins. Beneath NAMA's veneer of impartiality lies a world built on political patronage and nepotism, rife with conflicts of interest and vulnerable to shocking instances of corruption. Here, and for the first time, bestselling investigative journalist, Frank Connolly, unravels the scandal at the heart of NAMA's mission. Based on exclusive interviews with a wide range of interested parties, NAMA-land is the shocking story of how the sale of public assets conspired to disinherit the Irish people and enrich a new elite. 'Frank Connolly's careful and penetrating investigative research has exposed critical truths about malfeasance in high places and the often ugly workings of political power generally, actions that have caused great harm to the general population.' Noam Chomksy 'Without Frank Connolly we would not know about the scale of corruption that has infected Irish political and business life. He is the best investigative journalist we've had in this country.' Eamon Dunphy

Author : Eli M. Noam
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 1435 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780199987238

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Who Owns the World's Media? by Eli M. Noam Pdf

This publication moves beyond the rhetoric of free media and free markets to provide a dispassionate and data-driven analysis of global media ownership trends and their drivers. Based on an extensive data collection effort from scholars around the world, it covers 13 media industries, including television, newspapers, book publishing, film, search engines, ISPs, and wireless telecommunication, across a 10-25 year period in 30 countries.

Author : Michael K. Reynolds
Publisher : B&H Publishing Group
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781433678196

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Flight of the Earls by Michael K. Reynolds Pdf

The epic story of an Irish family in the 1840s immigrating to America, where love, adventure, tragedy, and a terrible secret are waiting.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Women in Community Pub. Course
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Ireland
ISBN : UCSC:32106006930462

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Who Owns Ireland by Anonim Pdf

Author : Thomas Alfred Jackson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 530 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1971
Category : History
ISBN : IND:32000006229860

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Ireland Her Own by Thomas Alfred Jackson Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1010 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Corporations
ISBN : STANFORD:36105012559907

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Who Owns Whom: United Kingdom and Republic of Ireland by Anonim Pdf

Author : Kevin Cahill
Publisher : Hachette UK
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2010-01-29
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9780446551397

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Who Owns the World by Kevin Cahill Pdf

You don't have to be a student of geography or cartography to have an interest in the world around you, especially with globalization making our planet seem smaller than ever. Now you can IM someone in Alaska, purchase coffee beans from Timor-Leste, and visit Dubai. But what do we really know about these lands? Who Owns the World presents the results of the first-ever landownership survey of all 197 states and 66 territories of the world, and reveals facts both startling and eye-opening. You'll learn that: Only 15% of the world's population lays claim to landownership, and that landownership in too few hands is probably the single greatest cause of poverty. Queen Elizabeth II owns 1/6 of the entire land surface on earth (nearly 3 times the size of the U.S.). The Lichtenstein royal family is wealthier than the Grimaldis of Monaco. 80% of the American population is crammed in urban areas. The least crowded state is Alaska, with 670 acres per person. The most crowded is New Jersey, with .7 acres per person. 60% of America's population are property owners. That's behind the UK (69% homeownership). And much, much more! With its relevance to contemporary issues and culture, Who Owns the World makes for fascinating reading. Both entertaining and educational, it provides cocktail party conversation for years to come and is guaranteed to change the way you view the U.S. and the world.

Author : Charles James Lever
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 532 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1878
Category : Electronic
ISBN : NLS:V000609949

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Lord Kilgobbin: a Tale of Ireland in Our Own Time by Charles James Lever Pdf