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and their political solidarity has made it difficult for the central government to
enact policies that could substantially increase the volume and value of agri-
cultural production. To do this would require substantially greater labor
expenditures.

Irish yeomen are not much interested in increasing exports in order to accu-
mulate capital to industrialize. Those who seek industrial employment are free
to emigrate and seek such jobs. They have left in large numbers, and Ireland
remains poor. Ireland is one of the few countries that has commercialized ag-
riculture without industrializing. "The Irish sacrificed economic progress on the
altar of Irish nationalism, who can say it was the wrong choice?" 61


NOTES
1. James C. Beckett, A Short History of Ireland, 14-41.
2. George O'Brien, The Economic History of Ireland in the Eighteenth Century, 173-
176, 244-245, 269-272. James C. Beckett, A Short History of Ireland, 44. Michael Perceval-Maxwell
, The Scottish Migration to Ulster in the Reign of James I, 14-18.
Louis M. Cullen, An Economic History of Ireland Since 1660, 10-25.
3. Michael Duignan, "Irish Agriculture in Early Historic Times," Royal Society of
Antiquaries of Ireland, Vol. 74, 1944, 141-145. F. H.A. Aalen, "Some Historical Aspects
of Landscape and Rural Life in Omeath, County Louth," Irish Geography, Vol. 4, 1962,
260-263. George O'Brien, The Economic History of Ireland in the Eighteenth Century,
153-155. Eileen McCracken, The Irish Woods Since Tudor Times, 27-31, 36, 91, 97.
Eileen McCracken, "The Woodlands of Ireland, c. 1600," Irish Historical Studies, Vol.
11, 1959, 287-296. Anthony T. Lucas, "Irish Food Before the Potato," Gwerin, Vol.
3, 1960, 8-9, 14-15, 19-21, 30. George A. Hill, Facts from Gweedore, viii, 23-24.
F. H.A. Aalen, "Clochans as Transhumance Dwellings in the Dingle Peninsula, County
Kerry," Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland, Vol. 94, 1964, 39-43.
F. H.A. Aalen, "A Note on Transhumance in the Wicklow Mountains," Journal of the
Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland, Vol. 93, 1963, 189-190. Jean M. Graham,
"Rural Society in Connacht, 1600-1640," in Nicholas Stephens, Robin E. Glasscock,
eds., Irish Geographical Studies, 197-200. Redcliffe N. Salaman, The History and Social
Influence of the Potato, 219.
4. Brendan S. MacAopha, "Clachan Settlement in Iar-Chonnacht," Irish Geography,
Vol. 5, 1965, 22-26. Bruce Proudfoot, "Clachans in Ireland," Gwerin, Vol. 2, 1959,
111, 115-118. Desmond McCourt, "Surviving Openfields in County Londonderry,"
Ulster Folklife, Vol. 4, 1958, 20-27. Jean M. Graham, "South-West Donegal in the
Seventeenth Century," Irish Geography, Vol. 6, 1970, 138-141. Jean M. Graham,
"Rural Society in Connacht, 1600-1640," in Nicholas Stephens, Robin E. Glasscock,
eds., Irish Geographical Studies, 193-197. Redcliffe N. Salaman, The History and Social
Influence of the Potato, 191.
5. F. H.A. Aalen, "Some Historical Aspects of Landscape and Rural Life in Omeath,
County Louth," Irish Geography, Vol. 4, 1962, 264.
6. Edmund Getty, "The Island of Tory: Its History and Antiquities," Ulster Journal
of Archaeology, Vol. 1, 1853, 30.
7. Devon Digest, Part 1, 378. See also Alexis de Tocqueville, Journeys to England
and Ireland, 164-165. Samuel Clark, Social Origins of the Irish Land War, 42. Henry

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