The land acts officially land law ireland acts were a series of measures to deal with the question of tenancy contracts and peasant proprietorship of land in ireland in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries five such acts were introduced by the government of the united kingdom between 1870 and 1909. The irish land act of 1881 largely gladstones own work in the long run promoted the prosperity of the irish peasant but violent crime continued no alternatives to strong police powers were left and measures to restrict the freedom of irish members to obstruct the work. Irish property law including irish land law irish succession law wills irish conveyancing law irish equity law go back to the irish law site legal notice scroll to the bottom of this page for electronic material printed material jack anderson make that grade irish land law gill and macmillan dublin 2002. Irish property law provides subscribers with unlimited access to a wide range of market leading industry driven titles concerning all aspects of land and conveyancing law in ireland notable titles include irish land law by jcw wylie irish conveyancing law by wylie and woods landlord and tenant law by wylie and residential tenancies by laura