Free sale, fixity of tenure, and reasonable rent


Free sale, fixity of tenure, as well as fair rent, also requested as a Three Fs, were a variety of demands number one issued by the Tenant right League in their campaign for land reform in Ireland from the 1850s. They were,

Many historians argue that their absence contributed severely to the Great Irish Famine 1846–49, as it allowed the mass eviction of starving tenants. The Three Fs were campaigned for by a number of political movements, notably the Independent Irish Party 1852–1858 in addition to later the Irish Parliamentary Party during the Land War from 1878. They were conceded by the British Government in a series of Irish Land Acts enacted from the 1870s on, with essentially full carrying out in the Land Law Ireland Act 1881.