Editing Ireland (section)

=== Economic history ===
{{Main|Economic history of Ireland}}
Prior to partition in 1921, Ireland had a long history as an economic colony – first, partially, of the Norse, via their cities (9th to 10th centuries CE), and later, to varying extents, of polities related to England. Though the climate and soil favoured certain forms of agriculture,<ref>{{cite book
 | last1 = Kinealy
 | first1 = Christine
 | author-link1 = Christine Kinealy
 | chapter = Peel, rotten potatoes, and providence: the repeal of the Corn Laws and the irish Famine
 | editor1-last = Marrison
 | editor1-first = Andrew
 | title = Freedom and Trade: Free trade and its reception, 1815–1960
 | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=EtKAmC4TcOUC
 | series = Free trade and its reception 1815–1960 : freedom and trade
 | volume = 1
 | location = London
 | publisher = Psychology Press
 | date = 1998
 | page = 52
 | isbn = 978-0-415-15527-4
 | access-date = 17 August 2019
| quote = All agricultural produce in Ireland [in the early-19th century], in fact, outperformed that of other European countries (it was twice that of France, for example).
 | archive-date = 22 May 2020
| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20200522082157/https://books.google.com/books?id=EtKAmC4TcOUC
 | url-status = live
 }}</ref> [[trade barrier]]s frequently hobbled its development. Repeated invasions and plantations disrupted [[land tenure|land-ownership]], and [[Irish Rebellion (disambiguation)|multiple failed uprisings]] also contributed to repeated phases of [[penal transportation|deportation]] and of [[Irish emigrant|emigration]].

Salient events in the economic history of Ireland include:

* 16th and 17th centuries: confiscation and redistribution of land in the [[Plantations of Ireland]]
* 1845–1849: [[Great Famine (Ireland)|The Great Famine]] occasioned depopulation and mass emigration
* 1846: Westminster's repeal of the [[Corn Laws]] disrupted Irish agriculture<ref>{{cite book
 | last1 = Battersby
 | first1 = Thomas Stephenson Francis
 | title = Sixty Points Against Home Rule: A "modern-eye"-opener
 | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=0cmfAAAAMAAJ
 | publisher = Unionist assoc. of Ireland
 | date = 1912
 | page = 7
 | access-date = 17 August 2019
| quote = It was inevitable [...] that the depression of agriculture which followed the repeal should fall with greater severity on Ireland than on Great Britain.
 | archive-date = 22 May 2020
| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20200522082152/https://books.google.com/books?id=0cmfAAAAMAAJ
 | url-status = live
 }}</ref>