Population Trends in Seventeenth-Century Ireland
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POPULATION estimates, while often arbitrary, merit close attention. While the estimates, often amounting to mere guess-work, reflect belief in what was happening in economic society, once formed they are frequently employed to give hard edges to economic and social phenomena described by historians. They are by no means independent data which may corroborate conclusions arrived at from other sources. Suggestions of a rapid growth of population are either implicit or explicit in all accounts of seventeenth-century Ireland. Where population figures for 1600 have been suggested, a figure of about half a million has been mentioned. This, however, would imply a four-fold increase between 1600. and 1687 and an almost six-fold increase between 1600 and 1712. The rate of increase is all the greater i f the demographic disaster of the early 1650s is allowed for. The combination of rapid growth of population with intervening demographic disaster was related to the model of economic development made explicit by O'Brien [5 ] of succeeding phases of cataclysmic destruction and spontaneous and
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