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 …

Ireland on the eve of the Great Famine was a poor and backward economy. The Great Irish Famine of the 1840s is … famines, the Great Famine was not the product of a harvest shortfall, but of a major ecological disaster. Because there could … be no return to the status quo ante, textbook famine relief in the form of public works or food aid was not enough …

This paper studies the relationship between pre-famine living conditions and famine severity. I digitise the parish … century and examine how they impacted the severity of The Great Famine. I find that income acted as a key co-variate of … determinant of famine severity, alongside the structural features of parishes, such as their distance from the nearest navigable …