Erratum

In L.M. Cullen, “The Irish food crises of the 1740s†in Irish economic and social history , vol xxxvii (2010), p.23, data in the second and third columns of table 6 except for the last four lines were erroneously transposed. The table appears correctly in an earlier version of the paper in Au contact des lumières: Mèlanges offerts à Philippe Loupès , eds. Anne-Marie Cocula and Josette Pontet Bordeaux: Presses Universitaires, 2005, vol. 2, p 305. The correct version of the table appears below. Table 6 Grain imports * Year ended 25 March grain (quarters) flour (cwt) meal (barrels) 1730 65,859 21,471 1731   9,518   3,375 1732 11,270   7,538 1733 24,606 13,415 1734 36,660 14,216 1735 64,774 29,630 1736 61,910 40,436 1737 44,743 24,997 1738 16,522 15,079 1739 19,221 14,741 1740 13,098 19,887 1741 15,659 13,086 1742 78,487 24,446 1743 12,901 11,954 1744   2,990 20,978       93 1745 18,123 24,708   7,361 1746 288,347 110,832 51,643 1747 123,398 37,190 27,227 * Grain includes barley, malt, beans, pease, oats and wheat. Note: A quarter equalled two barrels. The quarter and barrel are a measure, the weight varying according to the nature of the grain (A quarter of wheat weighed about 5 cwt.). Figures for flour are first recorded in the year ended 25 March 1744. The absence of comparable figures for preceding years (which, as flour was entering into cross-channel trade for the first time, are likely to have been small) may suggest that any quanties were included in the total for meal. Source: The figures are taken from data in the appendices to the Journals of the house of commons , principally vol. ix, app. ccxlvii; vol. xii, app. cccxlv-cccxlvi (some small discrepancies exist in different reports).