Child benefit is a universal payment to all households with children in Ireland. Unlike other transfers however it is …

The paper places Ireland's current economic crisis in historical perspective. It compares it with four others since …

This paper describes Ireland last major bank failure before the collapse of Anglo-Irish Bank in 2008. It points to … resonances between that earlier failure and the events that led to the downfall of Ireland's banking system in 2008-2010. …

This short paper revisits two questions that were central to Joel Mokyr’s Why Ireland Starved (2nd edition, 1985 …). These are, first, what determined the variation in population change across Ireland during the Great Famine decade of 1841 …-1851 and, second, whether and in what sense can pre-famine Ireland be characterized as ‘malthusian’. …

This paper complements a much larger study of school attendance in pre-famine Ireland by FitzGerald (2010). It exploits …

in Ireland. We also consider some possible adverse effects that may be associated with such strong reliance on …

There are a number of factors that are generally agreed to have a role to play in the story of Ireland's recent success …