MTU Cork Library Catalogue

The Irish : emigration, marriage and fertility /

Kennedy, Robert E.

The Irish : emigration, marriage and fertility / Robert E. Kennedy. - Berkeley, CA. : University of California Press, 1973. - xviii, 236 p. ; 20 cm. + pbk.

Bibliography: (pages 226-231) and index.

Basic issues and interpretations -- Conditions in nineteenth-century Ireland -- Mortality and relative living standards -- Female emigration and the movement from rural to urban areas -- Emigration and agricultural labor-saving techniques -- Nationalism and protestant emigration -- Postponed marriage and permanent celibacy -- High marital fertility -- The interrelationship of historical trends.

0520028961


Ireland--Population.
Ireland--Emigration and immigration.

301.329415

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