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Ultimately, the land question was settled through successive Irish Land Acts by United Kingdom governments – beginning with the 1881 Act of William Ewart Gladstone, which first gave extensive rights to tenant farmers, then the Wyndham Land Purchase Act ( 1903 ) won by William O ' Brien after the 1902 Land Conference, enabling tenant farmers purchase their plots of land from their landlords, the problems of non-existent rural housing resolved by D. D. Sheehan under the Bryce Labourers ( Ireland ) Act ( 1906 ).
These acts created a very large class of small property owners in the Irish countryside, and dissipated the power of the old Anglo-Irish landed class.
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