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

We use databases we have created from the records of New York's Emigrant Savings Bank, founded by pre-Famine Irish … immigrants and their children to serve Famine era immigrants, to study the social mobility of bank customers and, by extension …, Irish immigrants more generally. We infer that New York's Famine Irish had a greater range of employment opportunities open …

Ireland on the eve of the Great Famine was a poor and backward economy. The Great Irish Famine of the 1840s is … famines, the Great Famine was not the product of a harvest shortfall, but of a major ecological disaster. Because there could … be no return to the status quo ante, textbook famine relief in the form of public works or food aid was not enough …

). 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 short paper revisits two questions that were central to Joel Mokyr's Why Ireland Starved (2nd edition, 1985 …