Editorial introduction / P.J. Drudy -- The importance of agrarian classes: agrarian class structure and collective action in nineteenth-century Ireland / Samuel Clark -- Class, family and rural unrest in the nineteenth-century Ireland / David Fitzpatrick -- The Land League ideal: achievements and contradictions / Paul Bew -- Shopkeeper-graziers and land agitation in Ireland, 1895-1900 / Michael D. Higgins and John P. Gibbons -- The small community in the Irish political process / Mart Bax -- Peasant models and the understanding of social and cultural change in rural Ireland / Damian F. Hannan -- The land question, politics and Irish society, 1922-1960 / M.A.G. Ó Tuathaigh -- Land, people and the regional problem in Ireland / P.J. Drudy -- Land policies and agricultural development / P. Commins -- The state and Irish agriculture, 1950-1980 / Alan Matthews -- Political independence, economic growth and the role of economic policy / Dermot McAleese -- Urban growth and urban land policy / Michael J. Bannon