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'. …

This paper describes the history of famine in Ireland between c. 1300 and c. 1900. Inevitably, most of its focus is on …

The Great Famine of Ireland from 1845-51 ranks as one of the most lethal of all time, claiming approximately one eighth …

Ireland on the eve of the Great Famine was a poor and backward economy. The Great Irish Famine of the 1840s is …

The link between demographic pressure and economic conditions in pre-Famine Ireland has long interested economists …. This paper re-visits the topic, harnessing the highly disaggregated parish-level data from the 1841 Census of Ireland … Ireland's population stayed at its 1800 level, this would have led to only modest improvements in literacy and housing …

The repeated failure of Ireland's potato crop in the late 1840s led to a major famine and a surge in migration to the … descriptive analysis of mobility for the famine-era Irish sons indicates that more Catholic surnames and birth in Ireland were …