Agricultural History Review, Volume 61 Part 1 (2013), pp. 83–110

This article follows the recent trend of adopting a comparative approach in the historiography of the Land Question. Some studies have sought to compare the land agitations of Ireland and the Western Highlands of Scotland while others have been concerned to explain the absence of a land war in Wales compared to that of Ireland. By comparing the Welsh Land Question with those of the other two Celtic nations, this study argues that while there were common grievances fuelling all three land agitations and – partly through knowledge of happenings elsewhere in the Celtic fringe – similar reform programmes and courses of action, it is the differences between the three land movements that need recognition and emphasis. 

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