Preventing the future
Subtitle: why was Ireland so poor for so long?
By: Tom Garvin.
Publisher: Gill & Macmillan; M.H. Gill & Co. U. C.
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Dublin
Language: eng
Number of pages: 278
Subjects: Ireland -- Economic conditions -- 20th century.; Ireland -- Social conditions -- 20th century.; Ireland -- Politics and government -- 20th century.
Description: "Between the years of the mid thirties through to 1960, independent Ireland suffered from economic stagnation, and also went through a period of intense cultural and psychological repression. While external circumstances account for much of the stagnation - especially the depression of the thirties and the Second World War - Preventing the Future argues that the situation was aggravated by internal circumstances." "The key domestic factor was the failure to extend higher and technical education and training to larger sections of the population. This derived from political stalemates in a small country which derived in turn from the power of the Catholic Church, the strength of the small-farm community, the ideological wish to preserve an older society and, later, gerontocratic tendencies in the political elites and in society as a whole."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes notes (p. 233-262) and index.
Table of contents: title: Politics and development in Ireland; title: Crossroads; title: Agonising reappraisal; title: Cherish the children; title: Developmentalists; title: Secularism and the cultural shift.