The Economic and Social Review, Vol. 41, No. 3, Autumn, 2010
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From developmental Ireland to migration nation: immigration and shifting rules of belonging in the Republic of Ireland
(Economic & Social Studies, Dublin, 2010)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 ... -
Organising for growth: Irish state administration 1958-2008
(Economic & Social Studies, Dublin, 2010)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, ... -
Before the Celtic Tiger: change without modernisation in Ireland 1959-1989
(Economic & Social Studies, Dublin, 2010)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 ... -
Educational developmentalists divided? Patrick Cannon, Patrick Hillery and the economics of education in the early 1960s
(Economic & Social Studies, Dublin, 2010)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. ... -
Fabricating 'Economic development'
(Economic & Social Studies, Dublin, 2010)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 ...