Fernihough, Alan; Ó Gráda, Cormac - 2018
. Using population per value adjusted acre as a measure of population pressure, our results indicate that on the eve of the … Great Famine of 1846-50, population pressure was positively associated with both illiteracy rates and the prevalence of poor … quality housing. But while our analysis shows that population pressure was one of the primary factors underpinning pre …