Author: Johann Georg KohlPublisher:
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Category : Ireland
Languages : en
Pages : 236
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Ireland
Author: Johann Georg KohlPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Ireland
Languages : en
Pages : 236
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Irish Peasants
Author: Samuel ClarkPublisher: Univ of Wisconsin Press
ISBN: 9780299093747
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 472
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"The strength of this volume cannot be conveyed by an itemisation of its contents; for what it provides is an incisive commentary on the newly-recognised landmarks of Irish agrarian history in the modern period. . . . The importance, even indispensability, of this achievement is compounded by exemplary editing."—Roy Foster, London Times Literary Supplement "As a whole, the volume demonstrates the wealth, complexity, and sophistication of Irish rural studies. The book is essential reading for anyone involved in modern Irish history. It will also serve as an excellent introduction to this rich field for scholars of other peasant communities and all interested in problems of economic and political developments."—American Historical Review "A milestone in the evolution of Irish social history. There is a remarkable consistency of style and standard in the essays. . . . This is truly history from the grassroots."—Timothy P. O'Neill, Studia Hibernica
Scotland and Ireland
Author: Edward PorrittThe Truth about the Irish Question
Author: Irish peasantPublisher:
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Category : Home rule
Languages : en
Pages : 82
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King's Irish Bibliography
Author: Jeremiah KingPublisher:
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Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 20
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Present Irish Questions
Author: William O'Connor MorrisPublisher:
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Category : Ireland
Languages : en
Pages : 468
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Parliamentary Debates
Author: The Parliamentary Debates
Author: Great Britain. ParliamentPublisher:
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 1080
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Why Ireland Starved
Author: Joel MokyrPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1136599665
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
Technical changes in the first half of the nineteenth century led to unprecedented economic growth and capital formation throughout Western Europe; and yet Ireland hardly participated in this process at all. While the Northern Atlantic Economy prospered, the Great Irish Famine of 1845–50 killed a million and a half people and caused hundreds of thousands to flee the country. Why the Irish economy failed to grow, and ‘why Ireland starved’ remains an unresolved riddle of economic history. Professor Mokyr maintains that the ‘Hungry Forties’ were caused by the overall underdevelopment of the economy during the decades which preceded the famine. In Why Ireland Starved he tests various hypotheses that have been put forward to account for this backwardness. He dismisses widespread arguments that Irish poverty can be explained in terms of over-population, an evil land system or malicious exploitation by the British. Instead, he argues that the causes have to be sought in the low productivity of labor and the insufficient formation of physical capital – results of the peculiar political and social structure of Ireland, continuous conflicts between landlords and tenants, and the rigidity of Irish economic institutions. Mokyr’s methodology is rigorous and quantitative, in the tradition of the New Economic History. It sets out to test hypotheses about the causal connections between economic and non-economic phenomena. Irish history is often heavily coloured by political convictions: of Dutch-Jewish origin, trained in Israel and working in the United States. Mokyr brings to this controversial field not only wide research experience but also impartiality and scientific objectivity. The book is primarily aimed at numerate economic historians, historical demographers, economists specializing in agricultural economics and economic development and specialists in Irish and British nineteenth-century history. The text is, nonetheless, free of technical jargon, with the more complex material relegated to appendixes. Mokyr’s line of reasoning is transparent and has been easily accessible and useful to readers without graduate training in economic theory and econometrics since ists first publication in 1983.
Ireland's Terrorist Dilemma
Author: Yonah AlexanderPublisher: Martinus Nijhoff Publishers
ISBN: 900464010X
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 285
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