Title: Preventing the future
First published: 2004
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.
Subjects: Social conditions, Politics and government, Economic conditions, Political planning, Ireland, social conditions, Ireland, politics and government, Ireland, economic conditions
Places: Ireland
Time periods: 20th century
LC classification: HC260.5 .G37 2004