http://hdl.handle.net/2262/62037 Sun, 19 May 2013 13:34:43 GMT 2013-05-19T13:34:43Z http://hdl.handle.net/2262/58706 Title: From developmental Ireland to migration nation: immigration and shifting rules of belonging in the Republic of Ireland Author: Fanning, Bryan Abstract: 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. Fri, 01 Jan 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/2262/58706 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/2262/58701 Title: Organising for growth: Irish state administration 1958-2008 Author: Hardiman, Niamh; MacCarthaigh, Muiris Abstract: 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. Fri, 01 Jan 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/2262/58701 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/2262/58700 Title: Before the Celtic Tiger: change without modernisation in Ireland 1959-1989 Author: Girvin, Brian Abstract: 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. Fri, 01 Jan 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/2262/58700 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/2262/58665 Title: Educational developmentalists divided? Patrick Cannon, Patrick Hillery and the economics of education in the early 1960s Author: Murray, Peter Abstract: 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. Fri, 01 Jan 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/2262/58665 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/2262/58664 Title: Fabricating 'Economic development' Author: Brownlow, Graham Abstract: Much of the literature, regardless of academic discipline, presents the publication of Economic Development in 1958 as analogous to a “big bang” event in the creation of modern Ireland. However, such a “big bang” perspective misrepresents the sophistication of economic debates prior to Whitaker’s report as well as distorting the interpretation of subsequent developments. This paper reappraises Irish economic thinking before and after the publication of Economic Development. It is argued that an economically “liberal” approach to Keynesianism, such as that favoured by T. K. Whitaker and George O’Brien, lost out in the 1960s to a more interventionist approach: only later did a more liberal approach to macroeconomic policy triumph. The rival approaches to academic economics were in turn linked to wider debates on the influence of religious authorities on Irish higher education. Academic economists were particularly concerned with preserving their intellectual independence and how a shift to planning would keep decisions on resource allocation out of the reach of conservative political and religious leaders. Fri, 01 Jan 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/2262/58664 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/2262/58663 Title: Hirschman and Irish industrial policy Author: Walsh, Patrick Paul; Whelan, Ciara Abstract: In this article we examine the origins of Whitaker’s export oriented industrial policy and the political management of its implementation. Whitaker appointed academic economic advisors, including Louden Ryan, to a Capital Investment Advisory Committee in 1956. The advice from this committee was to become a cornerstone of Whitaker’s industrial policy. Using the archives of the Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland (SSISI), we show that industrial policy at its inception was shaped by the economic theories of Hirschman (1958). Hirschman’s theories were adopted for Ireland’s vision of economic development via the writings and counsel of Ryan. Fri, 01 Jan 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/2262/58663 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/2262/58660 Title: Seán Lemass and the nadir of protectionism Author: Durkan, Joe Abstract: This paper considers the move to protectionism in Ireland with the advent of the new government in 1932. Using material from an unpublished paper by Lemass the paper shows the logical basis of the protectionist policy adopted: designed as a means of increasing employment and possible development. This paper then places the collapse of protectionism in the late 1950s within the context of a general failure of protection to provide for development and a mismanaged macro-policy, leading to the acceptance of outward looking policies. Fri, 01 Jan 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/2262/58660 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/2262/58659 Title: Tom Garvin – Curriculum Vitae Author: Garvin, Tom Abstract: Tom Garvin – Curriculum Vitae as of September, 2010, including a bibliography of his writings. Description: Tom Garvin – Curriculum Vitae as of September, 2010 Fri, 01 Jan 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/2262/58659 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/2262/58658 Title: Reappraising Irish developmentalism: Editorial Author: Fanning, Bryan; Walsh, Patrick Paul Abstract: On 12 March 2009 the Institute for British-Irish Studies in the School of Politics and International Relations hosted a conference to mark the contribution of Professor Tom Garvin to Social Science, University College Dublin Professor of Politics and former editor of The Economic and Social Review. The conference explored some of the themes of Professor Garvin’s research by examining the development of Ireland in the latter half of the twentieth century and the early twenty-first century. A number of contributions to the conference were subsequently published as working papers by the Institute for British-Irish Studies (IBIS) at University College Dublin, edited by Professor Jennifer Todd. This special issue draws upon some of these papers. The editors would like to thank Professor Maurice Manning, Professor Jennifer Todd, Professor John Coakley, Professor Louden Ryan and Dr William Kissane for their support in bringing together this special issue of The Economic and Social Review. All the papers benefited from the presentations and comments of participants at the 2009 conference. This issue of The Economic and Social Review addresses the nature and extent of social, political, economic and cultural change since the formal beginning of Ireland’s developmental trajectory since 1958. Garvin’s own critique of Irish developmental modernity, Preventing the Future: why was Ireland so poor for so long? (2004) has done much to stimulate a new generation of social science scholarship since the publication in 1958 of the seminal Economic Development. Description: Editorial Fri, 01 Jan 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/2262/58658 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z