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Why Ireland Starved, After Three Decades

Friday 2 May 2014, Lecture Room 4, Riddel Hall, Queen’s University Belfast

Welcome and tea and coffee (11:00-11:15) 

Session 1 (11:15-12:15) 
Peter Solar (Vesalius College, Brussels), 'Mokyr and the Big Issues in Pre-Famine Economic History'

Session 2 (12:15-13:15) 
Cormac Ó Gráda (UCD),  Morgan Kelly (UCD) and Alan Fernihough (QUB), 'The Great Famine in Cross-Section Reconsidered'

Lunch (13:15-14:15)

Session 3 (14:15-15:15)
Liam Kennedy (QUB and UU), 'What Famine? Social Solidarity and the Limits to Private Charity during the Irish Famine’

Session 4 (15:15-16:15)
Discussion led by Joel Mokyr (Northwestern)

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