systematically related to its level of economic development. Ireland is an interesting test case because of the importance of inward … important differences between Ireland's outward FDI and the bulk of FDI occurring in the world economy however. Ireland …

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

Ireland’s dramatic economic boom of the 1990s has been referred to as “the era of the Celtic Tiger”. In a little over a …-level educational system that had been developed in Ireland over recent decades. …

Ireland’s relatively late and feeble fertility transition remains poorly-understood. The leading explanations stress … Ireland to study fertility in Dublin and Belfast. Our larger project aims to use the extensive literature on the fertility …

In most western societies, marital fertility began to decline in the nineteenth century. But in Ireland, fertility in … Church in Irish society. These arguments are often backed up by claims that the Irish outside of Ireland behaved the same way … both rural and urban Ireland. But Irish immigrants still had large families relative to the native-born population in the U …

Ireland, the “Celtic Tiger” economy of today, had for decades been one of the poorest of the Western European economies …