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 …

Growing up in Ireland longitudinal data set. Optimal matching analysis is used to construct a dissimilarity matrix to which …

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 …