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 …

In most western societies, marital fertility began to decline in the nineteenth century. But in Ireland, fertility in … marriage remained stubbornly high into the twentieth century. Explanations of Ireland's late entry to the fertility transition … Irish outside of Ireland behaved the same way. This paper investigates these claims by examining the marital fertility of …

Ireland's relatively late and feeble fertility transition remains poorly-understood. The leading explanations stress … samples from the 1911 census of Ireland to study fertility in Dublin and Belfast. Our larger project aims to use the extensive …

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

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'. …

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. …