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Author
Publisher
Council Oak Books
Pub. Date
2011
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
286 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Ireland Unhinged: Encounters with a Wildly Changing Country looks back at the changes that the economic boon wreaked on the Irish countryside and what the future holds for the country. Connecticut-born David Monagan explores his adopted country through the eyes of a passionate transplant. 'What is Ireland? Has it lost its soul?' Monagan keeps asking as he roams from Cork to Dublin Donegal and Belfast. His answers are loving searing and often laugh-out-loud...
Author
Publisher
PublicAffairs
Pub. Date
©2010
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
viii, 230 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
The "Irish economic miracle" was built on good old-fashioned subsidies (from the European Union) and the simple fact that until the 1980s Ireland was by the standards of the developed world so economically backward that the only way was up. And as it began to catch up to European and American averages, the boom lured in investors, the Irish government deregulated and all but abandoned financial oversight, and a great Irish financial ceilidh began....
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