News from a new republic
Subtitle: Ireland in the 1950s
By: Tom Garvin
Publisher: Gill & Macmillan; Gill & Macmillan Ltd
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Dublin
Language: eng
Number of pages: 251
ISBN-13: 9780717146598
Subjects: Economic conditions; Economics
Description: Tom Garvin's survey of the 1950s is an interpretative narrative, based largely on a close reading of contemporary newspaper reports and analyses. He identifies the primary causes of the calamity as a revolutionary gerontocracy that overstayed its welcome.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [217]-238) and index.