Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from The Economic History of Ireland From the Union to the Famine
But particularly in Ireland in the early nineteenth century Owing to the policy adopted towards Irish industry in the eighteenth century the vast majority of the population were thrown on the land for their support and the propor tion of the people thus depending on the soil tended to increase rather than diminish after the Union. Sir Robert Kane estimated in 1844 that the percentage of the population dependent on manufactures was 24, and that dependent on agriculture An occupation which took such a prominent place in the economy of the country is entitled to the first and greatest share of our consideration.
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