Rationing
As a result of
shortage of ships:
Little petrol and no
coal for domestic use
Tea 2oz. per week and
later 1 oz.
No wheat meant no
white bread
Situation made worse
by foot-and-mouth in 1941
Ration books
issued
Movement from pasture
to tillage enforced
Wheat @ 21,000 acres
in 1932 and @ 640,000 acres in 1944
Turf burning
encouraged
1941 Irish shipping
set up