Download or read book Family and Farm in Pre-Famine Ireland written by Kevin O'Neill and published by Univ of Wisconsin Press. This book was released on 2003-04 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 variable--the rapid economic development of rural Ireland that was shaped by British interests.