Ireland’s Sea Fisheries, 1400-1600

Economics, Environment and Ecology

Dr Patrick W Hayes (Contributor)

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English

The Boydell Press
12 December 2023

British & Irish history; Early history: c 500 to c 1450&1500; Early modern history: c 1450 to c 1700; Economic history; Fisheries & related industries

Series: Irish Historical Monographs

This book examines the environmental, political, and economic history of Ireland's marine fisheries from 1400 to 1600.

It combines a wide range of historical sources with innovative digital research methods to provide a comprehensive and systematic overview. Government letters and court documents highlight the diverse range of fishing fleets from across Europe that visited Irish waters in the early sixteenth century, bringing wealth and cultural influence to the native Irish, who developed complex systems to protect and tax the visitors. Furthermore, trade records illustrate that fish was Ireland's premier export in the late fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries. However, a range of factors led to the industry's collapse by the end of the sixteenth century: the Tudor conquest which disrupted fishing operations and fundamentally altered who controlled fishing resources; the destabilization of Irish waters resulting from the terrestrial conflict, which allowed pirates to thrive; an influx of cheap cod from the newly exploited fisheries in Newfoundland which changed consumption patterns in Ireland and across Europe; and shifting climatic conditions and decades of over-exploitation which meant fewer fish and poorer catches. Overall, the book reveals that fisheries form a vital part of the broader environmental, political, and economic history of Ireland.

By: Dr Patrick W Hayes (Contributor)
Imprint: The Boydell Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm,
Weight: 659g
ISBN: 9781783277063
ISBN 10: 1783277068
Series: Irish Historical Monographs
Pages: 330
Publication Date: 12 December 2023
Audience: General/trade , College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , ELT Advanced , Primary
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Patrick Hayes completed his doctorate at Trinity College, Dublin

Reviews for Ireland’s Sea Fisheries, 1400-1600: Economics, Environment and Ecology

Ireland's Sea Fisheries is a welcome book that fills a major gap in the scholarship with a thorough, insightful study. Hayes is the first to write a monograph on the subject and to reconstruct Ireland's many fisheries in detail. His book will immediately become the standard reference work on the subject and a major addition to the broader scholarship on early modern Atlantic fishwork, which has focused on the northwest Atlantic and North Sea. * H-NET REVIEWS: H-OCEANS *