Irish Agriculture - A Price History: from the Mid-eighteenth Century to the End of the First World War A Price History from the Mid-Eighteenth Century to the Eve of the First World War

by Kennedy, Liam; Solar, Peter M.

• ISBN13: 9781904890416
• ISBN10: 1904890415
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2007-12-15
• Publisher: Royal Irish Academy

Summary

"Prices affect the living conditions of millions of people, hence their importance for an understanding of the past. In Irish Agriculture: A Price History, Liam Kennedy and Peter Solar consider what was until relatively recently the principal means of livelihood for the majority of the country's population, shedding light on some major controversies in Irish history: the impact of the French wars, the significance of the Great Famine and the origins of the Land War." "The underlying data in this work, the product of more than ten years of archival research, are some 20,000 bimonthly price observations from the period 1755-1914 that have been processed into annual price series."--BOOK JACKET.

Author Biography

Liam Kennedy is professor of economic & social history at Queen's University Belfast.

Table of Contents

List of Tables
List of Figures
List of Plates
Prices in Irish history	p. 1
The variety of weights and measures in Irish markets	p. 17
Irish agricultural prices: north and south, 1765-1913	p. 43
The prices of beef and cattle in Ireland, 1755-1913	p. 71
An overview of agricultural price movements in Ireland, 1765-1913	p. 87
Conclusion	p. 101
Sources and methods for southern prices	p. 109
Sources and methods for northern prices	p. 119
Sources and methods for Dublin mutton prices	p. 127
Appendix Tables
Wheat prices (shillings per hundredweight)	p. 131
Flour prices (shillings per hundredweight)	p. 135
Oats prices (shillings per hundredweight)	p. 138
Oatmeal prices (shillings per hundredweight)	p. 142
Barley prices (shillings per hundredweight)	p. 146
Potato prices (shillings per hundredweight)	p. 150
Hay prices (shillings per hundredweight)	p. 154
Pig meat prices (shillings per hundredweight)	p. 157
Egg prices (shillings per 120)	p. 161
Butter prices (shillings per hundredweight)	p. 164
Mutton prices (shillings per hundredweight)	p. 168
Beef prices (shillings per hundredweight)	p. 172
Contract prices for fresh beef (shillings per hundredweight)	p. 176
Sale prices for cattle from farm accounts ([pound] per beast)	p. 178
Sale prices of cattle from fair reports, three-year-olds ([pound] per beast)	p. 182
Agricultural price indices: south (1856-60=100)	p. 184
Agricultural price indices: north (1856-60=100)	p. 188
Sectoral price indices: south (1840-5 weights; 1840-5=100)	p. 192
References	p. 196
Index	p. 203
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