The paper chronicles the evolution of financial regulation in Ireland, with particular attention given to the roles …

This paper describes the causes and consequences of Ireland's economic crisis in the context of the policy solution … implemented to contain that crisis: protracted fiscal austerity. I describe the causes of the recent crisis in Ireland, and look …, tracing their effects on sectors of Ireland's macroeconomy, and, finally, ask whether Ireland is, indeed, the role model for …

Ireland has been taken to be an exemplary case of successful growth-promoting fiscal retrenchment, not once but twice …-ECB-IMF loan conditions. This paper argues that many of the apparent lessons drawn from Ireland’s experience turn out to be more … complex and even misplaced upon closer inspection. Ireland was never an instance of ‘expansionary fiscal contraction’ in the …

through the experiences of Spain and Ireland. …

This paper adopts a new analytical approach to explaining choices in fiscal politics in Ireland and Spain between 2008 … the crisis: Ireland adopted an orthodox deficit-reduction strategy, while Spain implemented a ‘heterodox’ stimulus fiscal … package. Yet by mid-2010, Spain’s fiscal stance had converged with Ireland’s, as the wider European crisis deepened and the …

and Simon Holroyd of NATCEN provided substantial technical assistance. This study would not have been possible in Ireland …

This paper examines government subsidisation of home ownership in Ireland since the start of the 20th Century. It … argues that during the first two thirds of this period, Ireland slowly assembled government home ownership supports of such …

. The government is required to formulate and implement extremely tough choices, particularly since Ireland entered an EU …

from the Growing Up in Ireland survey. The findings confirm the sibling absence effect of union instability, the social …