Buy this book on-line GARVIN, TOM: : NEWS FROM A NEW REPUBLIC: Ireland in the 1950sIRELAND.DUBLIN.GILL & MACMILLAN LTD.,2010. ISBN 9780717146598.
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acknowledgements,7 chapters,8pp contemporary monochrome cartoons in 1 block,between pp118/19,notes and an index, plus [unpaginated] half-title+title pages, a dedication and 2pp blanks at the rear.
The 1950s was a decade of international economic recovery after the disasters of World War II.
The United States boomed as never before. Western Europe,with the assistance of the Marshall Plan,staged a spectacular recovery.There was just one exception.The Irish economy actually contracted in those years,and over four hundred thousand,out of a population of fewer than three million,emigrated.
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: the blocking power of powerful special interest groups who alone benefited from economic protection; and an ideology of rural frugality,buttressed by an underdeveloped educational system and supported by the moral monopoly of the Catholic Church.
Garvin also traces the rise of the generation that broke this consensus and carried Ireland into the free-trade boom of the 1960s.Their reform prescription was born not just of despair but also of a series of social changes among the Irish middle-class elite that were to prove decisive over time.
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