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CONFISCATION IN IRISH HISTORY
The officers on the other hand bought up the soldiers' allotments, and also in many cases the lands assigned to the transplanted Irish in Connaught. They founded families many of which last to the present day.
And one result of the confiscation, a result which the present generation is seeing reversed by means of costly machinery and after generations of discord, was the almost complete disappearance from the island of a peasant proprietary.
