Download or read book The Economic History of Ireland in the Seventeenth Century (Classic Reprint) written by George O'Brien and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-10-12 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Economic History of Ireland in the Seventeenth Century The\economic history of Ireland in the seventeenth century may be divided into well-defined periods. The beginning Of the century was marked by a complete breakdown Of the whole economic life of the country, after which the industrial organization had to be built up anew from the foundations. The last quarter Of the sixteenth century witnessed a de/va's-t tating war in Ireland, in the course Of which property Of all kinds was deliberately and ruthlessly destroyed. It is not necessary for the purposes Of this book to go into the vexed question of the type of social and economic life which English policy set itself to destroy; that is a matter on which competent historians have expressed strongly difiering views; and it wouldbe presumption for the present author to express any opinion on the subject without having made an independent investiga tion. It is sufficient to say that, whatever was the condition or quality of that earlier Irish agricultural and industrial organisation, whether it was, as some have suggested, ' complex and highly developed, or, as others have asserted, ' primitive and semi-barbarous, it was utterly and completely destroyed in the closing quarter of the sixteenth century. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.