Ireland appears to be in the throes of a remarkable process of social change. Over the last decade, the apparently … expose the fallacies that drive the fashionable rhetoris of Tigerhood. Four of these fallacies - that Ireland has cast off … liberty are at an unprecedented level for all citizens, and that Ireland is also experiencing a period of strong cultural …

We apply insights from the political economy of secession to analyse the early years of the Irish Free State (IFS). The …

convergence phenomenon, Ireland, also neutral but democratic, was not able to converge to the developed world. Since 1973, with … petroleum crashes, the process of growth has slowed in Europe, but it was only after 1985 that Ireland began to grow at …

scenario analysis of the Irish economy. Most recently the model has been used to generate the scenarios underpinning the 2013 … economy has undergone substantial change and new approaches to modelling important economic relationships have been developed … key mechanisms and the modelling innovations which have been introduced to deal with major changes in the economy. As the …

This paper aims to compare the economies of two of the EU countries of cohesion – Greece and Ireland – which are … countries displaying similar initial macroeconomic and structural characteristics. Greece and Ireland have been included in the … EU countries of cohesion because of their low level of development. However, Ireland showed higher growth rates in …