Irish Land Commission
The Irish Land Commission ("Irish Land Commission") was founded in 1881 by the Irish Land Act in what was then a British-ruled Ireland with the aim of controlling and, if necessary, setting the rent that Irish farmers had to pay to the landlords .
The commission later went on to buy land from the landlords and transfer it to the local farmers. With this move the British government wanted to appease the peasants and weaken support for Irish nationalist movements (for Ireland's independence from Great Britain). In this context, around 55,000 km 2 of land was transferred.
The Land Law (Commission) Act of 1923 redesigned the commission. It was not until 1983 that the Commission stopped buying land, bringing land reform to an end in Ireland. The commission was dissolved on March 31, 1999 by the Irish Land Commission (Dissolution) Act of 1992 and most of the liabilities were transferred to the Department of Agriculture.
In its long and generally successful history, the Commission has not always been undisputed. Above all, the division of larger lands into small, sometimes uneconomical parcels is controversial. The destruction of the landlord's residences (e.g. Monellan Castle and Shanbally Castle ) by order of the Irish government has also been heavily criticized.