Fernihough, Alan; Ó Gráda, Cormac - 2018
The link between demographic pressure and economic conditions in pre-Famine Ireland has long interested economists …. This paper re-visits the topic, harnessing the highly disaggregated parish-level data from the 1841 Census of Ireland … Ireland's population stayed at its 1800 level, this would have led to only modest improvements in literacy and housing. …