This paper constructs annual GDP estimates for Ireland (1924-47) to join the first complete official aggregates. The … new series is deployed to revisit Ireland's economic performance in the post-independence decades. Ireland's economy grew … productivity improvements stemming from workers moving out of agriculture. Starting in 1924 captures the civil war recovery and …

Northern Ireland's productivity performance has persistently been the worst of any UK region. This is despite having … Northern Ireland, but neglects its interwar origins. Using new comparisons of regional and sectoral industrial productivity … to productivity growth, restricting the development of new industries in Northern Ireland. Further UK devolution will not …

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 …

What impact do famines have on survivors? We use individual-level data on a population exposed to severe famine … environment is associated with poor health into adulthood - a scarring effect. The second: famine survivors do not themselves … before, during and after the Great Irish Famine (1845-52), one of modern history's most severe famine episodes, suggests that …

Responsibility for the tremendous excess mortality associated with the Great Irish Famine of 1846-51 is a continuing … administrative records. We use those records to study the Union's day-to-day functioning during the famine and to estimate mortality … the famine primarily reflects the crisis outside the workhouse's walls; the guardians and managers did reasonably well in …