Ireland : a new economic history, 1780-1939 / Cormac O Gráda.

By: Ó Gráda, Cormac .

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BookPublisher: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 1995Description: xv, 536 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. + pbk.ISBN: 0198205988.Subject(s): Ireland -- Economic conditions

DDC classification: 330.9415

Contents:

Part I -- A false dawn? -- The economy, 1780-1815 -- Fiscal and monetary integration, 1790-1820 -- Part II -- Population and poverty, 1815-1845: from one waterloo to another -- Farming on the eve of the Great Famine: output and productivity -- Communications, banking and fishing -- Trends and fluctuations before the famine -- Part III -- 'An gorta mor': The Great Famine, 1845-1850 -- Part IV -- Population and emigration, 1850-1939 -- Living standards after the famine -- Farming, commercialization and convergence -- Industry, c1780-1914: an overview -- Industry, c1780-1914: Problems and prospects -- Banking and industrial finance, 1850-1939 -- Part V -- The economic performance of the two Irelands, 1921-1939: Issues and evidence -- Commercial policy and the economic war -- The economic performance of the two Irelands, 1921-1939: Macroeconomic policy and living standards.

Summary: A comprehensive economic history of Ireland between 1780 and 1939. Its methodology unites historical research with economic theory.

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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

Ireland: A New Economic History offers a fresh, comprehensive economic history of Ireland between 1780 and 1939. Its methodology is mould-breaking, and it is unparalleled in its broad scope and comparative focus. Cormac Ó Gráda unites historical research with economic theory in an original and stimulating book, which will be essential reading for all students of Irish history.

Bibliography: (pages 443-461) and index.

A comprehensive economic history of Ireland between 1780 and 1939. Its methodology unites historical research with economic theory.

Reviews provided by Syndetics

CHOICE Review

This is a new economic history that uses quantitative tools (primarily statistical inference) to evaluate historical hypotheses of social and economic conditions in Ireland (1780-1939). It is new history also in that 'O Gr'ada leaves almost no received interpretations undebunked. His competence with these analytical techniques is readily apparent. Unlike Robert William Fogel and Stanley L. Engerman in their pathbreaking Time on the Cross (1974), however, 'O Gr'ada never gathers together his results to build a comprehensive test of a hypothesis about the Irish economy as such. Indeed, no organic picture of the economy ever emerges. Focus is on outcomes, social and economic, and on inputs to the economy rather than on the economy per se. (The sections on money, banking, and finance are, to a degree, exceptions to this general assessment.) It seems likely that many readers, including most economists, will find that this work "nips at the edges" but does not digest the Irish economy. The book's tables, graphs, and bibliography are clear and complete, but it would have been helpful if a map with place names had been provided. Similarly, the untranslated passages of Gaelic found embedded in the text could have been accompanied by an English translation with profit. Upper-division undergraduate. J. Murdock; emeritus, University of Missouri--Columbia

Author notes provided by Syndetics

Cormac Ó Gráda is on the editorial boards of Explorations in Economic History, European Journal of the History of Economic Thought, and Journal of Economic History. He is the author of Ireland before and after the Famine: Explorations in Economic History 1800-1930 (MUP, 1988; pb 1990), The Great Irish Famine (Macmillan, 1989), and Eire Roimh an nGorta: An Saol Eacnamacioch [Ireland before the Famine: Economic Life] (Dublin, 1988)