Renting in Ireland

July 2nd, 2003 | by aobaoill |

According to Eamon Gilmore TD:

In the six years of this FF/PD government, more Irish families have lost their homes through eviction than did so during any equivalent period of the nineteenth century under British rule.

Those who know their Irish history will know that frustration in the 19th century led to the emergence of the land reform movement with their three central aims: freedom of sale (of leases), fair rent and fixity of tenure. How ironic that in an independent Irish state, which grounds its identity in the nationalist myth associated with such movements, we are so sorely lacking on these three aims more than one hundred years later.

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