The chances of somebody being a rebel in the struggle for Irish independence was impacted by the extent to which the Great Famine affected where they came from, new research shows
The research was conducted by Dr Gaia Narciso, director of the Centre for Economics, Policy and History at the Department of Economics at Trinity College Dublin in collaboration with Dr Battista Severgnini, associate professor at the Copenhagen Business School and was recently published in a paper in the Journal of Development Economics.
They matched instances of potato blight and excess mortality at the barony level in Ireland during the Great Famine with the 1911 census, which reveals where people lived, and records from the military service pension collection files where more than 80,000 people, men and women, applied for medals and pensions.
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