The slow failure : population decline and independent Ireland, 1922-1973 /
By: Daly, Mary E.
Series: History of Ireland and the Irish diaspora.Publisher: Madison, Wis. : University of Wisconsin Press, 2006Description: xiv, 438 p. ; 24 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 0299212904 (cloth : alk. paper); 9780299212902:.Subject(s): Ireland -- Population -- History -- 20th century | Ireland -- Emigration and immigration -- History -- 20th century | Ireland -- History -- 1922-DDC classification: 304.6209417Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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Standard Loan | ATU Sligo Yeats Library Main Lending Collection | 304.6209417 DAL (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 0058664 |
Includes bibliographical references (p. 331-416) and index.
The pathology of Irish demographic history -- Saving rural Ireland : 1920-1960 -- Marriages, births, and fertility : the Irish family -- The Irish state and its emigrants : 1922-1954 -- The vanishing Irish : 1954-1961 -- 1961-1971 : "A worthy homeland for the Irish people"? -- "A ticket to London is a ticket to hell" : emigrants, emigrant welfare, and images of Ireland.
Between 1922 and 1966 the population of Ireland was falling, in the 1950s as rapidly as in the 1880s. This book examines not just the reasons for the decline, but the responses to it by politicians, academics, journalists, churchmen, and others who agonized over their nation's 'slow failure.'.