October - Irish tenants ostracise landholder's agent Charles Boycott.

It declared that "Freedom of contract, in the case of the majority of Irish tenants, large and small, does not really exist".

Finally in 1935 the Land Commission took over and after decades of campaigning won rights for Irish tenants working off estate land.

In later years, wardens of the Irish marches took Irish tenants.

Whoever they are, Irish tenants must start paying the Church the proper rents for their land.

Therefore, what actually happened was that a land-owning class of British Protestants was created, ruling over Irish Catholic tenants.

Shee became active in Irish tenants' rights.

The majority of Irish tenants had no form of protection, they could be, and often were, summarily evicted.

They demanded for the Irish tenant what have since been known as the three F's -fixity of tenure, fair rents, and free sale.

Built in the 1930's by the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company, the complex was home to mostly Jewish and Irish tenants.