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Demographic adjustment and seasonal migration in nineteenth-century Ireland

Ó Gráda, Cormac (Editions de l'Ecole des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, 1981)
Demographic issues in famine analysis

Ó Gráda, Cormac ; Dyson, Tim (Institute of Development Studies, 2002)
Demography, food production and famine risks in the 21st century

Ó Gráda, Cormac ; Dyson, Tim (University College Dublin, School of Economics, 2002-07)

The main purpose of this paper is to address the question of whether the world can feed itself during the 21st Century. We start with a brief review of the chief demographic effects of famines - with special reference to ...
Determinants of Irish emigration : a note

Ó Gráda, Cormac (Blackwell Publishing on behalf of The Center for Migration Studies of New York, Inc, 1986)
Did (and does) the Irish border matter?

Ó Gráda, Cormac ; Walsh, Brendan M. (Queen's University Belfast. Centre for International Borders ResearchUniversity College Dublin. Institute for British-Irish Studies, 2006)

This paper examines how the two parts of Ireland were affected by the partition of the country in 1922. It examines the post-partition evolution of living standards north and south, and patterns of trade, migration, and ...
Did (and does) the Irish border matter?

Ó Gráda, Cormac ; Walsh, Brendan M. (University College Dublin. Institute for British-Irish Studies, 2006)

This paper examines how the two parts of Ireland were affected by the partition of the country in 1922. It examines the post-partition evolution of living standards north and south, and patterns of trade, migration, and ...
Did tariffs matter that much?

Ó Gráda, Cormac (University College Dublin. School of Economics, 1987-10)
Did Ulster Catholics always have larger families?

Ó Gráda, Cormac (Manchester University Press on behalf of Economic and Social History Society of Ireland, 1985)
An Drochshaol : béaloideas agus amhráin

Ó Gráda, Cormac (Coiscéim, 1994)
Dublin Jewish demography a century ago

Ó Gráda, Cormac (University College Dublin; School of Economics, 2006-01)
Dublin Jewish demography a century ago

Ó Gráda, Cormac (Economic and Social Research Institute, 2006)

This paper examines the demography of Ireland’s Jewish community a century ago. Its focus is on Dublin Jewry, then mainly a community of immigrants from the Tsarist Empire and their children. It compares the marital fertility ...
Dublin's demography in the early Nineteenth century : evidence from the Rotunda

Ó Gráda, Cormac (Taylor & Francis, 1991)

The records of Dublin's Rotunda Lying-in Hospital offer an interesting source on the city's demography before the Great Famine. Like most maternity hospitals at the time, the Rotunda catered mainly for the poor, but its ...
The early history of Irish savings banks

Ó Gráda, Cormac (University College Dublin, School of Economics, 2008-02)
An early Irish response to Malthus

Ó Gráda, Cormac (Duke University Press, 1991)

Deals with the opinion of 19th century landowner and politician William Parnell on the 'Essay on Population' written by Thomas Malthus. Relation of poverty and population.
Eating People is Wrong: Famine’s Darkest Secret?

Ó Gráda, Cormac (University College Dublin. School of Economics, 2013-03)

Cannibalism is one of our darkest secrets and taboos. It is the ultimate measure of the resilience or otherwise of civilizational processes to extreme conditions. How common was cannibalism in times of famine in the past? ...
The economic development of Ireland since 1870

Ó Gráda, Cormac (University College Dublin. School of Economics, 1993-09)
The economic effects of emigration : Ireland

Ó Gráda, Cormac ; Walsh, Brendan M. (RAND, 1994)
The economic impact of the little ice age

Kelly, Morgan ; Ó Gráda, Cormac (University College Dublin. School of Economics, 2010-04-16)

We investigate by how much the Little Ice Age reduced the harvests on which pre-industrial Europeans relied for survival. We find that weather strongly affected crop yields, but can find little evidence that western ...
Economic status, religion, and demography in an Ulster town a century ago

Ó Gráda, Cormac (University College Dublin, School of Economics, 2008-01)
Eighteenth-century Irish population : new perspectives from old sources

Ó Gráda, Cormac ; Daultrey, Stuart ; Dickson, David (Cambridge University Press on behalf of the Economic History Association, 1981-09)

The lack of other data has made fiscally motivated house counts the main basis of pre-censal Irish population estimates in the past. The source is potentially treacherous: in this paper spatial autocorrelation analysis of ...