@article{ad5c509538a04e31a12052a92434641f,
title = "An annual index of Irish industrial production, 1800–1913",
abstract = "We assemble the Irish industrial data currently available for the years 1800–1921, the period during which the entire island was in a political union with Great Britain, and construct an annual index of Irish industrial output for 1800–1913. We also construct a new industrial price index. Irish industrial output grew by an average of 1.3 per cent per annum between 1800 and the outbreak of the First World War. Industrial growth was slightly slower than previously thought, especially during the two decades immediately preceding the Great Famine. While Ireland did not experience absolute deindustrialisation either before the Famine or afterwards, its industrial growth was disappointing when considered in a comparative perspective.",
keywords = "historical national accounts, industrial production, Ireland",
author = "Se{\'a}n Kenny and Jason Lennard and O'Rourke, {Kevin Hjortsh{\o}j}",
note = "Funding Information: We are grateful to Anna Missiaia, Cormac {\'O} Gr{\'a}da, Frank Geary, Graham Brownlow, John Fitzgerald, Patrick Wallis, Paul Sharp, Peter Solar, and participants at the Irish Quantitative History Group Annual Conference at Trinity College Dublin and the University of Gothenburg. We also thank Agust{\'i}n B{\'e}n{\'e}trix for helping us with the comparative data. A special word of thanks is owed to Andy Bielenberg, who has been very generous in his support of this project. Not only did we rely on him for many individual industrial series, as detailed in appendix II, including for such major sectors as brewing, construction, linen, and shipbuilding, but the weights for our index came from his analysis of the 1907 census, while alternative weights used in a robustness exercise are drawn from his unpublished work. Kenny would like to gratefully acknowledge support from the Irish Research Council (Science Foundation of Ireland), project code: 21/PATH-A/9390. Funding Information: We are grateful to Anna Missiaia, Cormac {\'O} Gr{\'a}da , Frank Geary , Graham Brownlow, John Fitzgerald, Patrick Wallis, Paul Sharp, Peter Solar , and participants at the Irish Quantitative History Group Annual Conference at Trinity College Dublin and the University of Gothenburg. We also thank Agust{\'i}n B{\'e}n{\'e}trix for helping us with the comparative data. A special word of thanks is owed to Andy Bielenberg , who has been very generous in his support of this project. Not only did we rely on him for many individual industrial series, as detailed in appendix II, including for such major sectors as brewing, construction, linen, and shipbuilding, but the weights for our index came from his analysis of the 1907 census, while alternative weights used in a robustness exercise are drawn from his unpublished work. Kenny would like to gratefully acknowledge support from the Irish Research Council (Science Foundation of Ireland), project code: 21/PATH‐A/9390. Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2022 The Authors. The Economic History Review published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd on behalf of Economic History Society.",
year = "2023",
month = feb,
doi = "10.1111/ehr.13189",
language = "English (US)",
volume = "76",
pages = "283--304",
journal = "Economic History Review",
issn = "0013-0117",
publisher = "Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Ltd",
number = "1",
}