Ireland is the most successful EU economy in attracting export-platform foreign direct investment (FDI), and the increased FDI inflows of the 1990s are widely agreed to have been one of the most important factors in generating the remarkable boom that the country experienced over that decade....

Most agricultural output in early 20th century Ireland was consumed on the farm or exported in an unprocessed state. A significant share nevertheless served as an input to Irish industry. While farmers and agri-business firms operated on opposite sides of the market, their relationship was...

"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...