Homicide in Pre-Famine and Famine Ireland

Microcredit In Pre-Famine Ireland

Hundreds of independent, local, quasi-charitable microcredit societies, or $loan funds,# were lending to as many as 20% of Irish households in the mid-nineteenth century. Monitored by a central regulatory authority, funds in the system were successful in mitigating informational, moral hazard and enforcement problems, and thus operated at a surplus in a market where intermediation by the banks ...

Famine Disease and Famine Mortality: Lessons from Ireland, 1845-1850

10740 words This is an abbreviated version of a paper given at a conference on famine demography at Les Treilles, France, 25-30 May 1999. The longer version is available as Mokyr and Ó Gráda, 1999. We are grateful to co-participants for their comments.

Agricultural Head Rents, Pre-Famine and Post-Famine

N o country can ever be held in just estimation", proclaimed Arthur Y o u n g in 1780, " w h e n the rental of it is u n k n o w n " : and Y o u n g , in his Tour in Ireland, proceeded to estimate the rental of this country. 1 His w a s the rhetoric of the political arithmetician, but he w a s neither the first nor the last to e m b a r k o n aggregate calculations. Several of the best-known pa...

Famine Fevers in England and Ireland *

After the generalized famine fevers had come to an end in England they continued to scourge Ireland for centuries, where their course may be taken as a repetition of the happenings in England in earlier times. During the eighteenth century and part of the nineteenth, large numbers of the Irish peasantry. lived in a deplorable state of poverty; lacking reserves, one or two bad seasons might suff...

Understanding and Preventing Famine and Famine Mortality