Guinnane, Timothy; Ó Gráda, Cormac - 2001
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 …