http://hdl.handle.net/2262/62037 2017-11-03T02:57:09Z 2017-11-03T02:57:09Z Fanning, Bryan http://hdl.handle.net/2262/58706 2016-09-09T18:12:23Z 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

From developmental Ireland to migration nation: immigration and shifting rules of belonging in the Republic of Ireland Fanning, Bryan This paper considers how post-1950s Irish developmentalism fostered the economic, social and political acceptance of large-scale immigration following EU enlargement in 2004. It argues that economic imperatives alone cannot account for the national interest case for largescale immigration that prevailed in 2004. It examines the ?rules of belonging? deemed to pertain to citizens and immigrants within the key policy documents of Irish developmental modernisation and recent key policy documents which address immigration and integration. Similar developmental expectations have been presented as applying to Irish and immigrants alike. Irish human capital expanded in a context where ongoing emigration came to be presented in terms of agency, choice and individual reflexivity. It again expanded considerably due to immigration. It is suggested that in the context of the current economic downturn that Ireland has become radically open to migration in both directions.

2010-01-01T00:00:00Z Hardiman, Niamh MacCarthaigh, Muiris http://hdl.handle.net/2262/58701 2016-09-09T18:22:51Z 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Organising for growth: Irish state administration 1958-2008 Hardiman, Niamh; MacCarthaigh, Muiris This paper analyses some key features of Irish public administration as it has developed since the foundation of the state, paying particular attention to the period from the late 1950s onward. During these decades, notwithstanding successive waves of concern expressed over the need for public sector reform, the evidence suggests an underlying lack of coherence in the evolution of the public administration system that resulted in a poor capacity for effective policy coordination. Yet the drive toward economic modernisation also resulted in the creation of new state competence to support industrial development both directly and indirectly. These changes can be tracked organisationally, drawing on the database of the IRCHSS-funded Mapping the Irish State project.

2010-01-01T00:00:00Z Girvin, Brian http://hdl.handle.net/2262/58700 2016-09-09T18:12:22Z 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Before the Celtic Tiger: change without modernisation in Ireland 1959-1989 Girvin, Brian This paper engages with and expands on a number of themes examined in Tom Garvin?s Preventing the Future. It asks if it is accurate to describe independent Ireland as poor before 1950, arguing that Ireland became poor in comparative terms only during the 1950s. While agreeing with the view that Ireland changed during the 1960s, the main contention of this article is that modernisation was severely constrained between 1959 and 1989 by the continuing dominance of traditional interests and attitudes. It also argues that Ireland?s poor economic performance was a consequence of this continuity as successive governments, privileged property owners and rural interests dominated other sectors of society. It suggests that the importance of culture and continuity in the process of change has often been underestimated and this requires closer attention if specific outcomes are to be explained in a satisfactory fashion.

2010-01-01T00:00:00Z Murray, Peter http://hdl.handle.net/2262/58665 2016-09-09T18:12:21Z 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Educational developmentalists divided? Patrick Cannon, Patrick Hillery and the economics of education in the early 1960s Murray, Peter The catalytic effect of the OECD-linked study that produced Investment in Education is a much celebrated episode of Ireland?s modernisation. A remarkably broad cross-departmental consensus supported the initiative. Bureaucratic caution and ministerial self-preservation were set aside to allow a ?warts and all? portrait of Irish education to be painted by the study team. Special efforts were made to focus public attention on the findings of a damning report that legitimated a quickening pace of government action to increase access to an expanded, rationalised and reoriented education system. But, as well as developmentalist triumph over conservatism in the education field, there was also significant division between state and civil society developmentalists. This is examined through an analysis of the relationship between the Federation of Lay Catholic Secondary Schools and the Department of Education.

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