Poverty in Pre-Famine Westmeath: The Findings of the Poor Commission of 1833

by Sean Byrne

The scale of the Great Famine of 1846 has overshadowed the prevalence of extreme poverty in Ireland in the period 1815- 45. As economic conditions deteriorated between those years, population increased rapidly. From the 1820s onwards, in the wake of famines and epidemics and an increase in agrarian violence, pressure mounted on the British government to address the problem of poverty in Ireland. In 1833 the government established the Royal Commission...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1801510946
• ISBN13: 9781801510943
• Release Date: January 2024
• Publisher: Four Courts Press
• Length: 72 Pages