In Ireland the holdings were small and multitudinous; no landlord who was not a millionaire, could have prepared and equipped holdings numbered by hundreds or thousands; and if he could, the hundreds and thousands of tenants had not a straw of capital.
Morley describes the small and numerous landholdings in Ireland and the challenges faced by tenants.
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