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Migration and Opportunity: Britain, Ireland and the New World by Nicholas Canny 7
The New Poor Law in Pre-Famine Ireland: A Case History by Gerard O'Brien 33
Active Sabotage in Industrial Conflict, 1917-23 by Emmet O'Connor 50
Documents and Sources
The Reconstruction of Irish External Trade Statistics for the Nineteenth Century by Peter Solar 63
Did Ulster Catholics always have Larger Families? by Cormac Ó Gráda 79
Agricultural Output in the Irish Free State Area before and after Independence by R. O'Connor and C. Guiomard 89
Review Essay
Unrest in Rural Ireland by David Fitzpatrick 98
Review Articles
Writing Belfast's History by R. J. Morris 106
The Motor Industry in Ireland by D. S. Jacobson 109
Archives Report
Irish Manuscripts Commission Survey of Business Records by Brian Donnelly 117
Thesis Abstracts 120
Bibliography
Select Bibliography of Writings on Irish Economic and Social History published in 1984 by Eamonn McKee and Vivienne Pollock 125
Reviews 139
Short Notices 166