| | Understanding Contemporary Ireland: State, Class and Development in the Republic of Ireland |  | Authors: Richard Breen, Damian F. Hannan, David B. Rottman, Christopher Whelan
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Category: Book
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Sales Rank: 6262396
Media: Hardcover
Pages: 248
ISBN: 0312035578
Dewey Decimal Number: 941.5082
EAN: 9780312035570
ASIN: 0312035578
Publication Date: February 1990
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Condition: Hardcover in dust jacket. An ex-library copy with the usual markings and flaps of d.j. glued to endpapers, but showing only gentle and limited use (d.j. is bright from having been in a mylar protector that has been removed).
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The Republic of Ireland in 1958 abandoned its self-imposed isolation from the modern world for the promise of social and economic progress. State initiatives to promote industrial development coincided with an expanding world economy, and served to promote rapid and radical change in almost every aspect of Irish society. However, the massive growth served to reinforce, not weaken the class barriers, and the policies of successive governments generated change without achieving economic prosperity. The aim of this study is to assemble and interpret these economic and social changes since 1960, placing them in the context of the Irish experience since independence, and comparing Ireland's problems and economic progress to that of other developed countries. The authors argue that the late and rapid economic development transformed the Republic of Ireland without securing either economic prosperity or equality of opportunity.
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