Salud, trabajo y nutrición. Irlanda antes de la Hambruna*

Cormac Ó Gráda

Revista de Historia Económica / Journal of Iberian and Latin American Economic History, 1993, vol. 11, issue 3, 475-502

Abstract: On the eve of the Great Famine (1846–50) Irish incomes were low by west European standards. However, an analysis of Irish diets at the time suggests that poverty was mitigated by a calorific intake that exceeded that of early nineteenth-century England and France. The added physical requirements of farm work in Ireland were not commensurate. The impression of healthy food is corroborated by a comparative analysis of Irish and British heights in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.

Date: 1993
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