Why Ireland Starved after Three Decades: The Great Famine in Cross-Section Reconsidered

Morgan Kelly and Cormac Ó Gráda
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Morgan Kelly: University College Dublin
Cormac Ó Gráda: University College Dublin

Irish Economic and Social History, 2015, vol. 42, issue 1, 53-61

Abstract: This short paper revisits two questions that were central to Joel Mokyr's Why Ireland Starved (2 nd edn, 1985). These are, first, what determined the variation in population change across Ireland during the Great Famine decade of 1841–51 and, second, whether and in what sense can pre-famine Ireland be characterised as ‘malthusian’.

Keywords: famine; Malthus; population; Ireland (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
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DOI: 10.7227/IESH.42.1.3

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