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    Oct 19, 2021 3 minutes

    IRISH RESEARCH

    RESEARCHING FARMING ANCESTORS IN IRELAND

    William Roulston

    Ulster Historical Foundation, 240 pages, £9.99

    There is a term that appears in Irish vital records and census returns that has frequently perplexed me. Fathers and husbands who describe themselves as “land holders”, are, to my mind, anything but. Evidence showed that they were tenants of very small holdings with poor-quality land. In this new book William Roulston explains the term, citing testimony published in a Royal Commission Report of

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