Welcome
- John Turner (Queen’s University Belfast; Centre for Economics, Policy and History)
Session 1
Moderator: Gaia Narciso (Trinity College Dublin; Centre for Economics, Policy and History)
- “Eighteenth Century Irish Interest Rates: Determinants and Impacts” Paul V. Kelly (London School of Economics and Political Science)
- “Specie Circulation via the Atlantic Slave Trade in the 18th-Century: Settling Bilateral American Colonial Debts with Britain via Coins Acquired in Sales of Slaves” Sean D. Moore (University of New Hampshire)
- “Rethinking the Geography of Distress in Nineteenth-Century Ireland: Excess Mortality and the Land War” Eoin McLaughlin (Heriot-Watt University) & Niall Whelehan (University of Strathclyde)
Session 2
Moderator: Rebecca Stuart (University of Neuchâtel; Queen’s University Belfast)
- “Database of Historical Irish Statistics: An Update” Ronan C. Lyons (Trinity College Dublin; Centre for Economics, Policy and History)
- “Economic Geography and the Irish Border: A Market Access Approach” Alan Fernihough (Queen’s University Belfast)
- “Domestic technology and human capital formation: rural electrification and secondary school participation in Ireland” Seán Lyons (University College Dublin), Anne Nolan (Economic and Social Research Institute; Trinity College Dublin) and Míde Griffin (Trinity College Dublin)