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Slow Failure: Population Decline and Independent Ireland, 1920-1973

Slow Failure: Population Decline and Independent Ireland, 1920-1973

Daly, Mary E.

Hardcover

Series: History of Ireland & the Irish Diaspora

General SociologyIrish History

ISBN10: 0299212904
ISBN13: 9780299212902
Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
Published: May 14 1999
Pages: 454
Weight: 1.76
Height: 1.37 Width: 6.12 Depth: 9.26
Language: English

Today Ireland s population is rising, immigration outpaces emigration, most families have two or at most three children, and full-time farmers are in steady decline. But the opposite was true for more than a century, from the great famine of the 1840s until the 1960s. Between 1922 and 1966 most of the first fifty years after independence the population of Ireland was falling, in the 1950s as rapidly as in the 1880s. Mary Daly s The Slow Failure examines not just the reasons for the decline, but the responses to it by politicians, academics, journalists, churchmen, and others who publicly agonized over their nation s slow failure. Eager to reverse population decline but fearful that economic development would undermine Irish national identity, they fashioned statistical evidence to support ultimately fruitless policies to encourage large, rural farm families. Focusing on both Irish government and society, Daly places Ireland s population history in the mainstream history of independent Ireland.

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