Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/72403 
Year of Publication: 
2002
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Centre for Economic Research Working Paper Series No. WP02/08
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University College Dublin, Department of Economics, Dublin
Abstract: 
Drawing on a recently-discovered correspondence archive of the 1840s, this article describes activities of the then most important land agency in Ireland, Messrs Stewart and Kincaid. Several of the firm’s clients resided in England. The partners supervised major agricultural improvements. They also implemented programmes of assisted emigration during the great Irish famine. The correspondence yields new insights into economic and social conditions in Ireland during the forties. It undermines popularly-held views of such conditions and suggests need for revision of findings of modern historians.
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