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This chapter explores the particular relationship that existed between 'unbought' northern Protestant tenants and their landlords in Northern Ireland following partition and the creation of the new state. It examines the campaign for land reform, the progress of the Act, and its implications for landed estates in Northern Ireland. By exploring the responses to the Act among northern tenants, many of whom were Protestant unionists, it seeks to highlight the complexity of social, religious and economic relationships in the north of Ireland during the opening decades of the twentieth century.