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Nationalism and Unionism in Ireland : Economic Perspectives

Kennedy, Liam - 2015

Irelandś political and constitutional dilemma is that two competing nationalisms emerged in the nineteenth century on the one small island. One was Irish nationalism which harked back to an ancient Gaelic civilization and was infused with Catholic culture and sometimes Anglophobic sentiment....

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Religion and development in post-famine Ireland

Henderson, Stuart - 2016

transformation of Ireland via plantation. The results reveal that Catholicism is an important factor in illiteracy, professional …

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Back to the failure : an analytic narrative of the De Lorean debacle

Brownlow, Graham - 2014

policy was relatively unsuccessful in Northern Ireland. …

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Soft budget constraints and regional industrial policy : reinterpreting the rise and fall of De Lorean

Brownlow, Graham - 2014

the institutional environment under which industrial policy operated in Northern Ireland. This institutional environment …

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Quantifying human capital accumulation in rural Ireland in the nineteenth century

Blum, Matthias; Colvin, Christopher L.; McAtackney, Laura; … - 2015

Ireland in order to facilitate an assessment of sources of this TFP growth, including the relative contribution of men and …. The speed at which women converged is consistent with Geary and Starkś interpretation of Irish economic history; Ireland …

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State dissolution, sovereign debt and default: lessons from the UK and Ireland

Foley-Fisher, Nathan; McLaughlin, Eoin - 2014 - This draft: August 2014; First draft: March 2014

We study Irelandś inheritance of debt following its secession from the United Kingdom at the beginning of the twentieth century. Exploiting structural differences in bonds guaranteed by the UK and Irish governments, we can identify perceived uncertainty about fiscal responsibility in the...

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The wee divergence : business creation and political turmoil in Ireland before 1900

Adams, R. J. C.; Campbell, Gareth; Coyle, Christopher; … - 2022

formation? Using new measures of business creation and political instability in Ireland during the late nineteenth-century, we … creation between Scotland and Ireland. Our findings suggest that the effects of political instability on entrepreneurship were … most acute in the parts of Ireland that were most concerned by potential changes. …

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Cohort component population estimates for Ireland, 1911-1920 : a new county-level dataset for use in historical demography

Colvin, Christopher L.; McLaughlin, Eoin; Richmond, … - 2021

the island of Ireland for the period 1911-1920. The raw data were digitised by the authors using official UK government …

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Demography and age heaping : solving Ireland's post-famine digit preference puzzle

McLaughlin, Eoin; Colvin, Christopher L.; Henderson, Stuart - 2022

Age heaping in Ireland worsened in the years after the Great Irish Famine, even as other measures of educational …

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Political economy of secession : lessons from the early years of the Irish Free State

Kenny, Sean; McLaughlin, Eoin - 2022

We apply insights from the political economy of secession to analyse the early years of the Irish Free State (IFS). The IFS was fortuitous in a debt settlement that enabled it to begin its existence debt free, whilst also receiving financial assistance to quell civil unrest. Yet the IFS was...

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