new series is deployed to revisit Ireland's economic performance in the post-independence decades. Ireland's economy grew …This paper constructs annual GDP estimates for Ireland (1924-47) to join the first complete official aggregates. The …s recovery was aided by strong contributions from services and industry, while the economy contracted by 7 per cent …

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 …

Ireland appears to be in the throes of a remarkable process of social and economic change. This text scrutinizes the …