Browsing by Subject "Mortality--Ireland--History"

Now showing items 1-5 of 5

Mortality in the North Dublin Union during the Great Famine

Ó Gráda, Cormac ; Guinnane, Timothy (Blackwell Publishing on behalf of the Economic History Society, 2002)

Debate about the adequacy of public action during the Great Irish Famine is hampered by a lack of detailed information on its impact at local level. This study addresses the question of local agency with a case study of ...
Mortality in the North Dublin Union during the Great Famine

Ó Gráda, Cormac ; Guinnane, Timothy (University College Dublin, School of Economics, 2001-05)
What do people die of during famines : the Great Irish Famine in comparative perspective

Ó Gráda, Cormac ; Mokyr, Joel (Cambridge University Press, 2002-12)

The Irish Famine killed over a million people who would not have died otherwise. The nosologies published by the 1851 Irish census provide a rich source for the causes of death during these catastrophic years. This source ...
Workhouse mortality and the Great Irish Famine

Guinnane, Timothy ; Ó Gráda, Cormac (Oxford University Press, 2002)
The workhouses and Irish famine mortality

Guinnane, Timothy ; Ó Gráda, Cormac (University College Dublin. School of Economics, 2000-04)

Our goal here is to offer a better understanding of why workhouse mortality was as high as it was, how it varied across Ireland, and how it affected different groups in the population such as women or children.