Preventing the Future (eBook)

Why was Ireland so poor for so long?

Tom Garvin (Autor)

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2004
352 Seiten
Gill Books (Verlag)
978-0-7171-6359-5 (ISBN)

Infos

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.
While economic growth did accelerate after 1960, the political stand-off over mass education resulted in large numbers of young people being denied preparation for life in the modern world and, arguably, denied Ireland a sufficient supply of trained labour and educated citizens.
Ireland's Celtic Tiger of the nineties was in great part driven by a new and highly educated and technically trained workforce. The political stalemates of the forties and fifties delayed the initial, incomplete take-off until the sixties and resulted in the Tiger arriving nearly a generation later than it might have.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 24.8.2004
• Verlagsort: London
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Wirtschaftsgeschichte
• Schlagworte: Catholic Church • Celtic tiger • Eamon de Valera • economic development of Ireland • economic stagnation • Gill Books • Irish economics • Irish education system • Irish Free State • Irish History • Irish identity • Irish language • Irish politics • irish revolution • Preventing the Future • Religion and Economy • religion and education • Religion and Politics • Religion and Society • revival of Irish language • Sean Lemass • Second World War • separation of church and state • social history of Ireland • the 1916 Rising • the Age of de Valera • Tom Garvin
• ISBN-10: 0-7171-6359-8 / 0717163598
• ISBN-13: 978-0-7171-6359-5 / 9780717163595