Family and Farm in Pre-Famine Ireland: The Parish of Killashandra

Now available in paperback, Kevin O’Neill’s highly praised study of rural Ireland in the years leading up to the "Great Hunger" of the 1840s explicates the social, economic, and demographic conditions of the era. He argues that overpopulation and deprivation were inextricably linked to a third variableâthe rapid economic development of rural Ireland that was shaped by British interests.