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Charles Stewart Parnell
Congested Districts Board (Scotland)
Corn Laws
Demographic history
Demography
Developing country
Dowry
Economics
Economy of the Republic of Ireland
Emigration
English Poor Laws
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Extreme poverty
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Fertility
Gombeen man
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Great Depression in the United States
Great Famine (Ireland)
Gresham's law
His Family
Household
Housing in the United Kingdom
Human overpopulation
Impediment (canon law)
Income
Internal migration
Irish Americans
Irish Catholic
Irish Poor Laws
Land War
Life table
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Michael Davitt
Moneylender
Mortality displacement
Mortality rate
Nationalization
Navvy
NEE
Opportunity cost
Oppression
Orange Order
Outdoor relief
Peasant
Penal Laws (Ireland)
Pension
Pensioner
Plan of Campaign
Population decline
Population growth
Primogeniture
Protestant Ascendancy
Publican
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Racial hygiene
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Social Darwinism
Subsistence crisis
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Thomas Robert Malthus
Ultimogeniture
Western European marriage pattern
Workhouse
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- ISBN 9780691628141
- Weight: 482g
- Dimensions: 152 x 235mm
- Publication Date: 08 Dec 2015
- Publisher: Princeton University Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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In the years between the Great Famine of the 1840s and the First World War, Ireland experienced a drastic drop in population: the percentage of adults who never married soared from 10 percent to 25 percent, while the overall population decreased by one third. What accounted for this? For many social analysts, the history of post-Famine Irish depopulation was a Malthusian morality tale where declining living standards led young people to postpone marriage out of concern for their ability to support a family. The problem here, argues Timothy Guinnane, is that living standards in post-Famine Ireland did not decline. Rather, other, more subtle economic changes influenced the decision to delay marriage or not marry at all. In this engaging inquiry into the "vanishing Irish," Guinnane explores the options that presented themselves to Ireland's younger generations, taking into account household structure, inheritance, religion, cultural influences on marriage and family life, and especially emigration.
Guinnane focuses on rural Ireland, where the population changes were most profound, and explores the way the demographic patterns reflect the rural Irish economy, Ireland's place as a small part in a much larger English-speaking world, and the influence of earlier Irish history and culture. Particular effort is made to compare Irish demographic behavior to similar patterns elsewhere in Europe, revealing an Ireland anchored in European tradition and yet a distinctive society in its own right. Originally published in 1997. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
Timothy W. Guinnane is Associate Professor of Economics at Yale University.
