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

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 …

In most western societies, marital fertility began to decline in the nineteenth century. But in Ireland, fertility in … Church in Irish society. These arguments are often backed up by claims that the Irish outside of Ireland behaved the same way … both rural and urban Ireland. But Irish immigrants still had large families relative to the native-born population in the U …

A century ago, and for most of the twentieth century, Ireland was a land of emigration, not immigration. However, in … the space of less than a decade in the 2000s, Ireland was transformed from a homogeneous community, where nonnative …

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. …

Emigrants from Italy and Ireland contributed disproportionately to the Age of Mass Migration. That their departure … spur investment in schooling in source countries. This essay describes the history of emigration from Italy and Ireland …

population census to address these issues for returnees to Ireland from North America more than a century ago. The evidence …

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. …

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