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SUMMARY:Methodist Historical Society of Ireland - Annual Lecture
DESCRIPTION:\nLecturer: Dr Marie Coleman\,\nReader in Irish History at Quee
 n's University Belfast.\nSubject: Demographic change in Longford’s Metho
 dist population\, 1869-1926\nThe decline by one-third of the non-Roman Cat
 holic population of the twenty-six southern Irish counties recorded betwee
 n the last pre-independence census of population in 1911 and the first con
 ducted in the Free State in 1926 constitutes one of the most significant d
 emographic changes in modern Irish history. Historians have debated the re
 asons for this and have largely arrived at a consensus that ‘most of the
  net population loss … may be explained by … factors such as the depar
 ture of the British-born military personnel\, “normal” or “economic
 ” migration\, low or negative natural increase\, and a top-heavy age-str
 ucture’. Nevertheless\, debate remains as to which of these factors was 
 the more significant\, with some favouring the explanation of voluntary mi
 gration and others focusing on the loss of numbers through declining birth
  and marriage rates. All agree that the context of revolutionary violence\
 , in particular between the years 1920 to 1923\, was a contributory factor
  but that there is little evidence to sustain emotive claims of depopulati
 on having been caused by a systematic campaign of ethnic cleansing by repu
 blicans.\n\nDr Marie Coleman is a Reader in Irish History at Queen's Unive
 rsity Belfast. She is the author of County Longford and the Irish Revoluti
 on\, 1910-1923\, The Irish Sweep: A history of the Irish Hospitals Sweepst
 ake\, 1930-1987 and The Irish Revolution\, 1916-1923\, and also serves as 
 joint editor of the journal\, Irish Historical Studies.\n\n&nbsp\;\n\n&nbs
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