Bøger af Mary E. Daly

The roots of many problems facing Ireland's economy today can be traced to the first two decades following its independence. This book is the first comprehensive study of industrial development and attitudes toward industrialization during a pivotal period, from the founding of the Irish Free State to the Anglo-Irish Trade Treaty.

Between 1922 and 1966 - most of the first fifty years after independence - the population of Ireland was falling, in the 1950s as rapidly as in the 1880s. This book examines not just the reasons for the decline, but the responses to it by politicians, academics, journalists, churchmen, and others who agonized over their nation's ""slow failure.