Irish Population, Economy, and Society
| Author | : Kenneth Hugh Connell |
| Publisher | : Oxford : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press |
| Total Pages | : 346 |
| Release | : 1981 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : |
Irish Population Economy And Society
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Quality of Life in Ireland
| Author | : Tony Fahey |
| Publisher | : Springer Science & Business Media |
| Total Pages | : 324 |
| Release | : 2008-06-11 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 1402069812 |
Frances Ruane, Director, Economic and Social Research Institute Irish and international scholars continue to be curious about Ireland’s exceptional economic success since the early 1990s. While growth rates peaked at the turn of the millennium, they have since continued at levels that are high by any current international or historical Irish measures. Despite differences of view among Irish economists and policymakers on the relative importance of the factors that have driven growth, there is widespread agreement that the process of globalisation has contributed to Ireland’s economic development. In this context, it is helpful to recognise that globalisation has created huge changes in most developed and developing countries and has been associated, inter alia, with reductions in global income disparity but increased income disparity within individual countries. This book reflects on how, from a social perspective, Ireland has prospered over the past decade. In that period we have effectively moved from being a semi-developed to being a developed economy. While the book’s main focus is on the social changes induced by economic growth, there is also recognition that social change has facilitated economic growth. Although many would regard the past decade as a period when economic and social elements have combined in a virtuous cycle, there is a lingering question as to the extent to which we have better lives now that we are economically ‘better off’.
Best of Times?
| Author | : Tony Fahey |
| Publisher | : Institute of Public Administration |
| Total Pages | : 329 |
| Release | : 2007 |
| Genre | : Business & Economics |
| ISBN | : 1904541585 |
The Vanishing Irish
| Author | : Timothy W. Guinnane |
| Publisher | : Princeton University Press |
| Total Pages | : 356 |
| Release | : 2015-12-08 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1400879825 |
In the years between the Great Famine of the 1840s and the First World War, Ireland experienced a drastic drop in population: the percentage of adults who never married soared from 10 percent to 25 percent, while the overall population decreased by one third. What accounted for this? For many social analysts, the history of post-Famine Irish depopulation was a Malthusian morality tale where declining living standards led young people to postpone marriage out of concern for their ability to support a family. The problem here, argues Timothy Guinnane, is that living standards in post-Famine Ireland did not decline. Rather, other, more subtle economic changes influenced the decision to delay marriage or not marry at all. In this engaging inquiry into the "vanishing Irish," Guinnane explores the options that presented themselves to Ireland's younger generations, taking into account household structure, inheritance, religion, cultural influences on marriage and family life, and especially emigration. Guinnane focuses on rural Ireland, where the population changes were most profound, and explores the way the demographic patterns reflect the rural Irish economy, Ireland’s place as a small part in a much larger English-speaking world, and the influence of earlier Irish history and culture. Particular effort is made to compare Irish demographic behavior to similar patterns elsewhere in Europe, revealing an Ireland anchored in European tradition and yet a distinctive society in its own right. Originally published in 1997. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
The Great Irish Famine
| Author | : Cormac Ó'Gráda |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 98 |
| Release | : 1995-09-28 |
| Genre | : Business & Economics |
| ISBN | : 9780521557870 |
The Irish Famine of 1846-50 was one of the great disasters of the nineteenth century, whose notoriety spreads as far as the mass emigration which followed it. Cormac O'Gráda's concise survey suggests that a proper understanding of the disaster requires an analysis of the Irish economy before the invasion of the potato-killing fungus, Phytophthora infestans, highlighting Irish poverty and the importance of the potato, but also finding signs of economic progress before the Famine. Despite the massive decline in availability of food, the huge death toll of one million (from a population of 8.5 million) was hardly inevitable; there are grounds for supporting the view that a less doctrinaire attitude to famine relief would have saved many lives. This book provides an up-to-date introduction by a leading expert to an event of major importance in the history of nineteenth-century Ireland and Britain.
Understanding Contemporary Ireland
| Author | : Brendan Bartley |
| Publisher | : Pluto Press (UK) |
| Total Pages | : 356 |
| Release | : 2007 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : |
This book provides a detailed, student-friendly overview of Ireland in the twenty first century and the remarkable economic and social transformations that have occurred since the late 1980s. The "Celtic Tiger" phenomenon has made Ireland the focus of much attention in recent years. Other countries have openly declared that they want to follow the Irish economic and social model. Yet there is no book that gives a comprehensive, spatially-informed analysis of the Irish experience.This book fills that gap. Divided into four parts -- planning and development, the economy, the political landscape, and population and social issues -- the chapters provide an explanation of a particular aspect of Ireland and Irish life accompanied by illustrative material. In particular, the authors reveal how the transformations that have occurred are uneven and unequal in their effects across the country and highlight the challenges now facing Irish society and policy-makers.Written by experts in the field, it is a key text for those wishing to understand the contemporary Irish economic and social landscape.
Post-Famine Ireland
| Author | : Desmond Keenan |
| Publisher | : Xlibris Us |
| Total Pages | : 924 |
| Release | : 2019-10-11 |
| Genre | : Science |
| ISBN | : 9781796060409 |
This book describes the social and economic conditions in Ireland in the second half of the 19th century, that is after the Great Famine. Though the famine severely affected the under-developed parts of Ireland, it did not greatly affect the Irish economy as a whole . On the contrary, an ever-increasing output was now spread over a falling population. GDP per capita went on rising, and people had more money to spread. The Government, the economy, agricultural and industrial, the churches, the educational system, medicine, the arts, the music, and the sports are described.
The Cambridge History of Ireland: Volume 3, 1730–1880
| Author | : James Kelly |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 878 |
| Release | : 2018-02-28 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 110834075X |
The eighteenth and nineteenth centuries was an era of continuity as well as change. Though properly portrayed as the era of 'Protestant Ascendancy' it embraces two phases - the eighteenth century when that ascendancy was at its peak; and the nineteenth century when the Protestant elite sustained a determined rear-guard defence in the face of the emergence of modern Catholic nationalism. Employing a chronology that is not bound by traditional datelines, this volume moves beyond the familiar political narrative to engage with the economy, society, population, emigration, religion, language, state formation, culture, art and architecture, and the Irish abroad. It provides new and original interpretations of a critical phase in the emergence of a modern Ireland that, while focused firmly on the island and its traditions, moves beyond the nationalist narrative of the twentieth century to provide a history of late early modern Ireland for the twenty-first century.
Sixties Ireland
| Author | : Mary E. Daly |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 441 |
| Release | : 2016-03-24 |
| Genre | : Business & Economics |
| ISBN | : 1107145929 |
A radical new perspective revealing the truth behind the making of modern Ireland from economic rebirth to entering the EEC.
