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The Irish food crises of the early 1740s: The economic conjuncture by L. M. Cullen 1
'We Scotsmen by the banks o' the Lagan': The Belfast Benevolent Society of St Andrew, 1867–1917 by Kyle Hughes 24
Killing in Ireland at the turn of the centuries: contexts, consequences and civilising processes by Ian O'Donnell 53
Symposium
Estimating Irish GDP from the mid-nineteenth century to the First World War 75
The context and development of historical national accounts in Ireland by L. M. Cullen 75
Irish income tax returns as a source for GDP estimates for Ireland, 1853-1914 by Jason Begley 84
The current position and further options for developing historical national accounts for Ireland, 1850–1921 by Andy Bielenberg 90
Review articles
Irish diplomatic history in the twenty-first century: After the Gold Rush by Kevin O'Sullivan 105
Did Ireland 'under'-industrialise? by Cormac Ó Gráda 117
Thesis abstracts 124
Bibliography
Selected list of writings on Irish economic and social history published in 2009 by Kyle Hughes 143
Reviews 154