"This book revisits the history of industrial development and development policy in independent Ireland from the birth of the state to the eve of EEC accession. The Irish Free State was predominantly agricultural at its establishment in 1922. Industrial development was high on the nationalist...

This is an authoritative and topical assessment of Ireland's impressive economic growth record which has seen it dubbed 'the Celtic tiger'. Leading scholars from Ireland and beyond discuss Ireland's spectacular performance in its economic, social and political contexts