Download or read book Why Ireland Starved written by Joel Mokyr and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-11-05 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Download or read book Preventing the Future written by Tom Garvin and published by Gill & Macmillan Ltd. This book was released on 2004-08-24 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Between the years of the mid-thirties through to 1960, independent Ireland suffered from economic stagnation, and also went through a period of intense cultural and psychological repression. While external circumstances account for much of the stagnation – especially the depression of the thirties and the Second World War – Preventing the Future argues that the situation was aggravated by internal circumstances. The key domestic factor was the failure to extend higher and technical education and training to larger sections of the population. This derived from political stalemates in a small country which derived in turn from the power of the Catholic Church, the strength of the small-farm community, the ideological wish to preserve an older society and, later, gerontocratic tendencies in the political elites and in society as a whole. While economic growth did accelerate after 1960, the political stand-off over mass education resulted in large numbers of young people being denied preparation for life in the modern world and, arguably, denied Ireland a sufficient supply of trained labour and educated citizens. Ireland's Celtic Tiger of the nineties was in great part driven by a new and highly educated and technically trained workforce. The political stalemates of the forties and fifties delayed the initial, incomplete take-off until the sixties and resulted in the Tiger arriving nearly a generation later than it might have.

Download or read book Poverty and Conflict in Ireland written by Paddy Hillyard and published by Combat Poverty Agency. This book was released on 2005 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Child Poverty in Ireland written by Brian Nolan and published by Combat Poverty Agency. This book was released on 1990 with total page 65 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Why Ireland is Poor written by John Francis Scanlan and published by . This book was released on 1880 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Sending Out Ireland s Poor written by Gerard Moran and published by . This book was released on 2013-12 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Between 1800 and 1914, over eight million people emigrated from Ireland. While the majority paid their own passage or had the fares paid by relations and friends in North America, there was a sizeable group who could not afford to leave. This book looks at the 300,000 emigrants who went to North America from 19th-century Ireland and who had their fares paid by the British government, landlords, poor law unions, and philanthropists. Most of these emigrants were among the poorest people in Ireland: workhouse paupers, landless laborers, single women, or those living in the congested board areas where they encountered perennial destitution and near famine conditions. They were often regarded as 'permanent deadweight' who could contribute little to their future well-being and would be better off in North America or the colonies. Most of the assisted emigrants experienced harsh conditions in North America. While some were well cared for, such as the Peter Robinson settlers to Ontario between 1823 and 1835, and the Tuke emigrants who were encouraged to settle in Canada and the mid-western states of the US in the 1880s, others had more difficult encounters. Those who were assisted by landlords, such as the marquis of Lansdowne and Lord Palmerston, were sent to Quebec, New York, and St. John and had to look after themselves from the time of disembarkation. Many of the assisted emigrants settled in Five Points in New York, where they lived in squalid conditions, but through perseverance and hard work they bettered themselves. The majority of these emigrants were happy to leave Ireland in the hope of a better life in North America.

Download or read book An Investigation of the Measurement of Poverty in Ireland written by Colin Menton and published by Institute of Public Administration. This book was released on 2007 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Why is Ireland poor and discontented A lecture etc written by Sir Charles Gavan Duffy and published by . This book was released on 1870 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Workhouses of Ireland written by John O'Connor and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The workhouse was the most dreaded and feared institution in Ireland. The workhouse system of poor relief was imposed on the Irish people in spite of the opposition of Catholic and Protestant, landlord and labourer. Everyone predicted it would not work- and it did not work. During the famine years countless thousands died within the workhouse walls. Even more, denied admission, died outside. This book traces the workhouse system from its introduction to its phasing out. It makes an unique contribution to our understanding of the social history of Ireland. -- Publisher description.

Download or read book Why Ireland is Poor written by John Francis Scanlan and published by . This book was released on 1881 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Poverty in Ireland 1837 written by József Eötvös and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1837, the conditions of the poor in Ireland - a third of the population - were worse than anywhere else in Europe. The Irish poor were half-naked and often without food - victims of bigotry and a cruel history, the idealistic young Baron Eötvös believed. A vivid last glimpse of a doomed community that would be largely wiped out a decade later.

Download or read book Attitudes Towards Poverty and Related Social Issues in Ireland written by E. E. Davis and published by Dublin : Economic and Social Research Institute. This book was released on 1984 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Research report based on a public opinion survey of attitudes and behaviour towards poverty in Ireland - examines relationship between socio-demographic aspects and the perception of poverty, welfare and responsibility, according to age, sex, educational level, rural areas or urban areas background; discusses research method. Questionnaires, references.

Download or read book Poverty and Policy in Ireland written by Brian Nolan and published by Gill. This book was released on 1994 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Research carried out into the extent and nature of poverty in Ireland has contributed to the poverty debate across a wide range of areas. The objectives of this book are to bring together what has been learnt in the course of this research about the extent, nature and causes of poverty and about framing policies to combat it.

Download or read book One Million Poor written by Stanislaus Kennedy and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Why is Relative Income Poverty So High in Ireland written by Tim Callan and published by ESRI. This book was released on 2004 with total page 69 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Looks at poverty trends in comparison to the 14 other EU countries. Assesses the role of labour market, demographic composition, and household structures by simulation. Considers social protection expenditure in relation to the country's national income.

Download or read book Poverty in Ireland 1837 written by Jozsef Eotvos and published by . This book was released on 2017-03-15 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1837, the conditions of the poor in Ireland - a third of the population - were worse than anywhere else in Europe. The Irish poor were half-naked and often without food - victims of bigotry and a cruel history, the idealistic young Baron Eotvos believed. A vivid last glimpse of a doomed community that would be largely wiped out a decade later.