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2 unusual facts about Cormac Ó Gráda


2008–14 Irish banking crisis

In April 2008 Professor Cormac Ó Gráda noted that: "property prices are suffering a meltdown likely to last for some years", yet the bulk of new bank lending since 2000 was based on mortages secured on property.

Kells, County Meath

For a discussion on the accuracy of pre-famine census returns see JJ Lee “On the accuracy of the pre-famine Irish censuses” in Irish Population, Economy and Society edited by JM Goldstrom and LA Clarkson (1981) p54, and also “New Developments in Irish Population History, 1700-1850” by Joel Mokyr and Cormac Ó Gráda in The Economic History Review, New Series, Vol.



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