Responsibility for the tremendous excess mortality associated with the Great Irish Famine of 1846-51 is a continuing … lack of detailed information on how well relief efforts performed at a local level. Excess mortality ranged from one … administrative records. We use those records to study the Union's day-to-day functioning during the famine and to estimate mortality …

Responsibility for the tremendous excess mortality associated with the Great Irish Famine of 1846-51 is a continuing … lack of detailed information on how well relief efforts performed at a local level. Excess mortality ranged from one … administrative records. We use those records to study the Union's day-to-day functioning during the famine and to estimate mortality …

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