The document discusses the history of land ownership and the land wars in Ireland from the 19th century onwards. It notes that a small number of mostly absentee landlords owned around half the land in Ireland by 1876. It describes high rates of eviction in the 1840s-1850s and the tactics used by the Land League in the late 1870s such as boycotts to resist evictions and help tenants regain land. It also outlines the Anglo-Irish War in 1919-1921 between Irish rebels and British forces, in which around 1200 people died in total.