Why Ireland starved after three decades : the great famine in cross-section reconsidered

Morgan Kelly and Cormac Ó Gráda

This short paper revisits two questions that were central to Joel Mokyr's Why Ireland Starved (2nd edition, 1985). These are, first, what determined the variation in population change across Ireland during the Great Famine decade of 1841-1851 and, second, whether and in what sense can pre-famine Ireland be characterized as 'malthusian'.

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Year of publication:	2015 ; Revised version: 2 May 2014
Authors:	Kelly, Morgan ; Ó Gráda, Cormac
Publisher:	Dublin : UCD Centre for Economic Research
Subject:	Famine \| Malthus \| population \| Ireland \| Irland \| Unterernährung \| Undernutrition

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Extent:	Online-Ressource (16 S.) graph. Darst.
Series:	Working paper series. - Dublin : [Verlag nicht ermittelbar], ZDB-ID 2094056-7. - Vol. 15/10
Type of publication:	Book / Working Paper
Type of publication (narrower categories):	Arbeitspapier ; Working Paper ; Graue Literatur ; Non-commercial literature
Language:	English
Other identifiers:	hdl:10419/129344 [Handle]
Classification:	N3 - Labor and Consumers, Demography, Education, Income and Wealth ; B3 - History of Thought: Individuals
Source:	ECONIS - Online Catalogue of the ZBW

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