The Irish : emigration, marriage and fertility / Robert E. Kennedy.
By: Kennedy, Robert E.
Material type: BookPublisher: Berkeley, CA. : University of California Press, 1973Description: xviii, 236 p. ; 20 cm. + pbk.ISBN: 0520028961 .Subject(s): Ireland -- Population | Ireland -- Emigration and immigrationDDC classification: 301.329415Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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General Lending | MTU Bishopstown Library Lending | 301.329415 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 00045660 |
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.