Irish Agriculture – A Price History: From the Mid-Eighteenth Century to the End of the First World War – Liam Kennedy, Peter M Solar Op = Op

This history of prices offers insight into the way Irish people once lived and behaved. Covering a period when agriculture was the mainstay of the economy, it illuminates issues as diverse as production patterns, prosperity and the Great Famine, political agitation during the French wars and agrarian unrest, and sheds light on intimate details such as the timing of marriage. The underlying data in this work are some 20,000 bi-monthly price observations from the period 1755-1914 that have been processed into…