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

2015; SAGE Publishing; Volume: 42; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês

10.7227/iesh.42.1.3

2050-4918

Morgan Kelly, Cormac Ó Gráda,

Historical Economic and Social Studies

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’.