Browsing by Subject "family"
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A tie that blinds: family and ideology in Ireland
(Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 1991)This paper examines the origins of the role of the family as a social symbol in Irish society. The source, it argues, is in the nature of the inequalities that were present in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century ... -
'Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the national debt': Solidarity between generations in the Irish crisis
(2014)Ireland has gained a reputation for peaceable acceptance of austerity following a European Union/International Monetary Fund bailout in 2010. While proponents of austerity praise Ireland’s stoicism, critics of global ... -
Family, state, class and solidarity: Re-conceptualising intergenerational solidarity through the Grounded Theory approach
(2013)The relationship between class and intergenerational solidarities in the public and private spheres calls for further conceptual and theoretical development. This article discusses the findings from the first wave of a ... -
State, family and compulsory schooling in Ireland
(Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 1992)Legal sanctions to compel parents into sending their children more regularly to school were widely applied in Ireland from the 1920s to the 1950s, following which the practice declined substantially and changed in nature ...