After the famine : Irish agriculture, 1850-1914 / Michael Turner.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Turner, Michael Edward, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Agriculture--Ireland--History--19th century.

Agriculture.

Agriculture--Ireland--History--20th century.

Agriculture--Economic aspects--Ireland--History--19th century.

Agriculture--Economic aspects--Ireland--History--20th century.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xv, 313 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 1996.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

After the Famine examines the recovery in Irish agriculture in the wake of the disastrous potato famine of the 1840s, and presents an annual agricultural output series for Ireland from 1850 to 1914. Michael Turner's detailed 1996 study is in three parts: he analyses the changing structure of agriculture in terms of land use and peasant occupancy; he presents estimates of the annual value of Irish output between 1850 and 1914; and he assesses Irish agricultural performance in terms of several measures of productivity. These analyses are placed in the context of British and European agricultural development, and suggest that, contrary to prevailing orthodoxies, landlords rather than tenants were the main beneficiaries in the period leading up to the land reforms. After the Famine is an important contribution to an extremely controversial area of Irish social and economic history.

Contents:

1. Introduction: Ireland and Irish agricultural history in context

2. Agricultural change

3. The occupation of the land

4. The product of the land: output

5. The performance of agriculture

6. Labour and the working of the land

7. Conclusion

structure, output and performance, and the distribution of the spoils

Appendix 1 Annual agricultural statistics, 1847-1914

Appendix 2 Crop yields in Ireland, 1847-1914

Appendix 3 Landholding and land occupancy distribution, 1847-1914

Appendix 4 Irish agricultural prices

Appendix 5 Weighing procedures adopted in estimating agricultural output

Appendix 6 Richard Barrington of Fassaroe, County Wicklow.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Includes bibliographical references (pages 294-304) and index.

ISBN:

0-511-58226-9

0-511-00105-3