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Irish Fisheries of the Medieval and Early Modern Period: Scale and Causes of Decline – (Ph.D.)
University of Dublin Trinity College
Innovation Bursaries 2010 - PhD Studentships| Application Deadline: | Friday 9th April 2010 | ||
| Annual Tuition Fee: | Free - | ||
| Location: | Dublin / Ireland / View location on map ▾ Hide location on map ▴ | ||
| Duration: | 48 months | Start Date: | September |
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| Languages: | English | ||
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This study will be based on two lines of inquiry and inform at least two disciplinary interests, history and geography. A study of the decline of the Irish fishing industry may provide a striking historical illustration of economic path-dependency. Likewise it will inform geographical understanding of population settlement around the Irish coast. It will provide a backdrop to our understanding of marine resources today.
The disaster of the hunger years from 1846 showed that the Irish economy was unsustainably based on agricultural produce, mainly the potato. At the same time observers were fully aware of the potential of the sea to provide an additional food source and the fishing industry had been well-developed in the medieval and early-modern period. What locked Ireland into a disastrous economic neglect of the sea? Was this unique to Ireland or was the under-development of the sea fisheries part of a wider European pattern?
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