Reprint of the original, first published in 1881.

In Part 1 Wilson reconstructs the family circumstances and estate management of two landlords, Stephen Moore, third earl of Mount Cashell, and Major Robert Perceval Maxwell. Each owned several estates in Ireland and the estate known as Amherst Island in Ontario. She examines how the management of these estates changed over time and highlights the differences between management in the north and south of Ireland, particularly in Counties Down, Antrim, and Cork. She looks at the form the landlord-tenant relationship took in the New World to determine whether tenancy arrangements in the New World offered landlords an opportunity to start afresh or, instead, were influenced by the traditions and financial circumstances of their Irish estates. The second part of the study follows more than one hundred tenant families who, between 1820 and 1860, migrated from the Ards Peninsula in County Down to Amherst Island, where they rented land from Mount Cashell and, later, from Maxwell. Wilson reveals what life was like in the United Parish of St Andrews, why families emigrated and rented on Amherst Island, and what it meant socially and economically to be a tenant in the New World, where most farmers were freeholders. Wilson sets her study firmly in the framework of British, Irish, and American writing on land tenure, and in this comparative context opens the discussion of tenancy among Canadians more widely than anyone has done heretofore. She concludes that both landlords and tenants were more successful in the New World. Wealth and land ownership might be slow in materializing, but the opportunity, the choices, and the attainment of security were all greater than they had been in Ireland.

The Residential Tenancies Act 2004, with over 200 sections, did not consolidate pre-existing legislation but runs parallel with it. The Act has also introduced new statutory obligations, while supplementing existing ones Landlord and Tenant Law - The Residential Sector by Cassidy and Ring provides a thorough analysis of landlord and tenant law in the private residential sector since the introduction of the Act. KEY BENEFITS *Considers the obligation to set rent no greater than market rent and the requirements for a valid rent review. *Highlights the pitfalls and mistakes that are commonly made when terminating tenancies and walks you step-by-step through the relevant procedures. *Defines when the tenant is in breach of their tenancy obligations, examining in particular how "anti-social" behaviour is interpreted. *Comprehensively deals with the dispute resolution process, including how to make an application to the PRTB; who has a right torefer a dispute; what disputes are not dealt with by the PRTB. *Provides you with all the documents you need to guide you through the life of a tenancy from beginning to end. Includes a sample lease agreement, warning letters and handy checklists to ensure nothing is forgotten. UP-TO-DATE *Considers and incorporates PTRB cases throughout to illustrate how the law has been interpreted in practice by the PRTB. *Addresses each topic comprehensively by dealing with all relevant legislation, making it much easier to understand how the law currently stands. By addressing each topic comprehensively, by simplifying the complexities of the Act and by providing practical checklists and summaries of procedures, this book will make life easier for anyone involved in: *Renting properties *Carrying out rent reviews *Terminating tenancies *Drafting lease agreements *Advising landlords and tenants on their rights and obligations *Representing parties in the dispute resolution process before the PRTB. HANDY APPENDICES INCLUDING: *Residential Tenancy Agreement *Notices of Termination *Example Statutory warning letters - breach of obligation and failure to pay rent *Circuit Court Forms ABOUT THE AUTHORS Jennifer Ring is a solicitor who was previously seconded to the Private Residential Tenancies Board from Matheson Ormsby Prentice solicitors. Jennifer is currently working with Freehills solicitors. Una Cassidy is a practising barrister in the Dublin Circuit, specialising in the area of landlord and tenant law.

Desmond Norton's fascinating study of the relationships between landlords and tenants in Ireland during the Great Famine period of the 1840s is principally based on a large uncatalogued archive in private ownership of the Stewart and Kincaid land agents. Much of the information from this unique resource is being published for the first time. Norton challenges existing assumptions about landlord-tenant relations, emigration and land improvement during the famine decade. Messrs Stewart and Kincaid was a firm of land agents based in Dublin, and most of the correspondence was addressed to its office there. The letters in the archive relate mainly to the estates managed by the firm during the 1840s, and give a rounded picture of life in the Irish countryside during the period. They provide evidence of some humane and caring landlords, the activities of middlemen, suffering tenants and emigration in a large number of locations, including Sligo and Roscommon, Clare and Limerick, Kilkenny, Carlow and Westmeath.Many famous families appear such as the Pakenhams and Ponsonbys, well-known historical figures, such as Lord Palmerston, who was foreign secretary and prime minister, as well as being a landlord in Sligo and Dublin. The evidence of the Stewart and Kincaid archives is complemented by research into other family archives and from the author's meetings with descendants of many of the families discussed. "Landlords, Tenants, Famine" is an immensely important contribution to scholarship on the Great Famine and to nineteenth-century Irish economic history.