%0 Book Section
%T Farm succession in modern Ireland: elements of a theory of inheritance
%A Kennedy, Liam
%B rural change in ireland
%D 1999
%I Institute of Irish Studies, The Queen’s University of Belfast
%C Belfast
%@ 085389744
%G English
%F er06-038
%O Liam Kennedy
%O LOC search performed 3 December 2012scanned
%O Includes bibliographical references
%X This article presents a model for family farm inheritance and succession based on the historiography and ethnography of rural Ireland, and using 1901-1931 demographic data from four economically distinct rural townships. Inheritance and succession are conceptualized in exchange terms. Under the model, recruitment of heirs depends on farm size, with the practice of partible inheritance on large farms and primogeniture or ultimogeniture on small farms. The author observes that the failure of large-scale capitalist farms to displace the small family farm is due in part to flexible inheritance practices and institutions of family and kinship.
%K Ireland
%K Rural conditions
%K Rural Irish
%K Eireanneach
%K Cultural participation
%K Tillage
%K Real property
%K Inheritance
%K Regulation of marriage
%K Household
%K Towns
%U https://ehrafworldcultures.yale.edu/document?id=er06-038
%P 116-142
%[ 2022-07-01