On the Structure of Wealth-holding in Pre-Famine Ireland

Neil Cummins, Cormac Ó Gráda

Very little is known about wealth-holding and its distribution in Ireland in the past. Here we employ death duty register data to analyse and identify a sample of the top wealth holders in Ireland between the early 1820s and late 1830s. We examine the sources of their wealth and its regional spread, and compare them with their British counterparts. We also discuss the share of Catholics and Quakers among top wealth-holders.

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Year of publication:	2020
Authors:	Cummins, Neil ; Ó Gráda, Cormac
Publisher:	Dublin : UCD School of Economics, University College Dublin
Subject:	inequality \| wealth \| Ireland \| Irland \| Vermögensverteilung \| Wealth distribution

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Extent:	1 Online-Ressource (circa 36 Seiten)
Series:	Working paper series. - Dublin : [Verlag nicht ermittelbar], ZDB-ID 2094056-7. - Vol. WP20, 29 (November 2020)
Type of publication:	Book / Working Paper
Type of publication (narrower categories):	Graue Literatur ; Non-commercial literature ; Arbeitspapier ; Working Paper
Language:	English
Other identifiers:	hdl:10419/237576 [Handle]
Classification:	N13 - Europe: Pre-1913 ; D31 - Personal Income, Wealth and Their Distributions
Source:	ECONIS - Online Catalogue of the ZBW

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