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 Ireland last major bank failure before the collapse of Anglo-Irish Bank in 2008. It points to … resonances between that earlier failure and the events that led to the downfall of Ireland's banking system in 2008-2010. …

This paper complements a much larger study of school attendance in pre-famine Ireland by FitzGerald (2010). It exploits …

Ireland’s dramatic economic boom of the 1990s has been referred to as “the era of the Celtic Tiger”. In a little over a …- level educational system that had been developed in Ireland over recent decades. …

Ireland’s relatively late and feeble fertility transition remains poorly-understood. The leading explanations stress … Ireland to study fertility in Dublin and Belfast. Our larger project aims to use the extensive literature on the fertility …

systematically related to its level of economic development. Ireland is an interesting test case because of the importance of inward … important differences between Ireland's outward FDI and the bulk of FDI occurring in the world economy however. Ireland …