After the Famine
After the Famine

Author: Michael Turner

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2002-04-11

Total Pages: 336

ISBN-13: 9780521890946

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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.

Social Origins of the Irish Land War
Social Origins of the Irish Land War

Author: Samuel Clark

Publisher: Princeton University Press

Published: 2014-07-14

Total Pages: 433

ISBN-13: 1400853524

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Arguing that social movements can be explained and understood only in a comparative historical perspective and not in terms of immediate social or political conditions, the author identifies the causes of the Land War in the evolution of social structure and collective action in the Irish countryside over the course of the nineteenth century. Originally published in 1979. 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.

Ireland and the Land Question 1800-1922
Ireland and the Land Question 1800-1922

Author: Michael J. Winstanley

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2012-10-12

Total Pages: 80

ISBN-13: 1135835535

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This pamphlet makes use of the most recent revisionist literature to reassess the view, much propagated by nationalist sources, that Ireland was a land of impoverished peasants oppressed by English laws and absentee English landlords. The land question has always been closely linked to the development of Irish national consciousness, and greatly exercised the minds of English politicians in the latter part of the nineteenth century. The author examines the nature of English understanding of Irish problems, which was often limited or ignorant, and attributes to it much of the unsound and ineffective ligislation passed. The book is concerned less with questions of English party politics than with the situation in Ireland itself and with the nature of the English response to it.

The land league proposal
The land league proposal

Author: Michael Davitt

Publisher: Good Press

Published: 2020-12-08

Total Pages: 42

ISBN-13:

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Michael Davitt's "The land league proposal" is a classic reflection on the socio-political landscape of the 1880s. Through insightful analysis and compelling narratives, Davitt delves into the intricacies of land rights and societal structures. This work offers readers a profound understanding of historical events and their lasting impact on society.

Reforming food in post-Famine Ireland
Reforming food in post-Famine Ireland

Author: Ian Miller

Publisher: Manchester University Press

Published: 2015-11-01

Total Pages: 355

ISBN-13: 1526102633

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Reforming food in post-famine Ireland: Medicine, science and improvement, 1845–1922 is the first dedicated study of how and why Irish eating habits dramatically transformed between the famine and independence. It also investigates the simultaneous reshaping of Irish food production after the famine. Adopting an interdisciplinary approach, the book draws from the diverse methodological disciplines of medical history, history of science, cultural studies, Irish studies, gender studies and food studies. Making use of an impressive range of sources, it maps the pivotal role of food in the shaping of Irish society onto a political and social backdrop of famine, Land Wars, political turbulence, the First World War and the struggle for independence. It will be of interest to historians of medicine and science as well as historians of modern Irish social, economic, political and cultural history.

The Land and the People of Nineteenth-Century Cork
The Land and the People of Nineteenth-Century Cork

Author: James S. Donnelly Jr

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 2017-07-06

Total Pages: 457

ISBN-13: 1351728229

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First published in 1975. Using estate records, local newspapers and parliamentary papers, this book focuses upon two central and interrelated subjects – the rural economy and the land question – from the perspective of Cork, Ireland’s southernmost country. The author examines the chief responses of Cork landlords, tenant farmers and labourers to the enormous difficulties besetting them after 1815. He shows how the great famine of the late 1840s was in many ways an economic and social watershed because it rapidly accelerated certain previous trends and reversed the direction of others. He also rejects the conventional view of the land war of the 1880s, arguing that in Cork it was essentially a ‘revolution of rising expectations’, in which tenant farmers struggled to preserve their substantial material gains since 1850 by using the weapons of ‘agrarian trade unionism’, civil disobedience and unprecedented violence. This title will be of interest to students of rural history and historical geography.