Noel O'Gara the author of this page was born in 1944, he emigrated to London in 1964 and qualified as a certified accountant in London in 1969. He returned home and was the first man in Ireland to introduce plastic bags when everyone used paper for packaging and went on to buy a large country house with a 60 acre farm at auction from the Irish Land Commission, the house formerly belonged
to a landlord who in the nineteenth century owned about 9,000 acres of land and was MP for Athlone. Located in the centre of Ireland, Noel O'Gara gained an insight into Irish land ownership in recent years and in September 2021 after seeing a famine plaque on a graveyard wall in Killeigh county Offaly, he became interested in how a million poor people could have starved or died in the recently constructed workhouses of Ireland and he could place himself in the landlord's shoes to try to understand what really happened. This website emerged and grew as the picture unfolded and everybody is welcome to join and contribute and learn the many uncomfortable facts that our media has not seen fit to highlight over the decades since Ireland shook off its British masters. The internet has enabled people to get access to information and evidence of the complete land ownership and the historic maps held by the Ordinance Survey Office in the Viceregal Phoenix park in Dublin, formerly the maps built up by the British administration over centuries, which enabled them to plan their battle tactics, defensive strategy and administer their military barracks for defense from French or Spanish possible attack as well as police stations to monitor and manage the ownership and administration of the island and the recalcitrant majority Irish Catholic population.
