O'Connell
(1834).
CHAPTER III.
THE HOME RULE CASE[ToC]
But Land Purchase and County Councils are only part of the great change that has come over Ireland since 1893.
There are other great transformations. There is the redemption of the congested districts. There is the revival of agriculture. There is the Old Age Pensions Act. Finally, there is the reform of the Universities.
THE CONGESTED DISTRICTS BOARD
Take, first, the daring policy of social renovation by which the forlorn peasantry of the West are being saved from the grey wilderness into which they had been thrust by the landlordism of 1830 to 1880.