The Disappearance of the Irish Agricultural Labourer, 1841-1912
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4854085 |
|---|---|
| Authors | David Fitzpatrick (0000-0002-4618-0700, Trinity College Dublin) |
| Year | 1980 |
| Volume | 7 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 66-92 |
| Publication date | 1980-06-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Irish Economic and Social History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0332-4893 • E-ISSN: 2050-4918 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/033248938000700105 |
| OpenAlex | W2731047859 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 22 |
I-?etween the Great Famine and the Great War, the structure of Irish social classes was revolutionized. Until fairly recently the 'social revolution' which attracted most attention from observers and historians was that whereby the landed proprietors of Ireland surrendered their power and property, as Standish O'Grady saw it, a hungry, greedy, and anarchic canaille.1 But revisionists have worried away at this 'revolution' with such effect that it now seems far more equivocal than it once did to its Tory architects, or to its landlord victims, or to Moritz Bonn. The economic impact of conferring property rights upon occupiers was cushioned, it seems, by the fact that tenants had come to enjoy an effective interest in their holdings long before this was recognized in law. The social impact of stripping the former 'Ascendancy' of its privileged access to political office and patronage was mitigated by the disconcerting survival among the emancipated peasantry of the habits of deference. Whether tenants at will, joint owners or proprietors, the occupiers of land warded off competitors and predators, kept the quality in its place and touched caps tirelessly. There remains however a second 'social revolution' which may yet prove more crucial to our understanding of Ireland's anomalous economic, social and political history after the Famine. This revolution was manifest in the virtual disappearance of the hired labourer from Irish agriculture, a process often remarked upon yet seldom submitted to statistical analysis. As William Bence Jones observed in 1880, reflecting upon his experience in Cork since 1846: It is a most change. When I first began there were at least as many labourers as farmers, but they have nearly all gone away.2 Recent studies by Lee, Hoppen, Clark and Bew have indicated the renewed interest of historians in the social and political implications of this curious change, particularly
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| Unique citing works | 22 |
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| Citations per year | 0,49 |
| Citation span | 1981 - 2016 (36) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 21 |