This short paper revisits two questions that were central to Joel Mokyr’s Why Ireland Starved (2nd edition, 1985). These are, first, what determined the variation in
population change across Ireland during the Great Famine decade of 1841-1851 and, second, whether and in what sense can pre-famine Ireland be characterized as ‘malthusian’.
Type of Material
Working Paper
Publisher
University College Dublin. School of Economics
Start Page
1
End Page
16
Series
UCD Centre for Economic Research Working Paper Series