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The lost decade : Ireland in the 1950s / edited by Dermot Keogh, Finbarr O'Shea, Carmel Quinlan.
- Title
- The lost decade : Ireland in the 1950s / edited by Dermot Keogh, Finbarr O'Shea, Carmel Quinlan.
- Publication
- Douglas Village, Cork : Mercier, c2004.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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Details
- Additional Authors
- Keogh, Dermot
- Description
- 302 p.; 22 cm.
- Summary
- A decade of creative change and innovation, 'Ireland in the 1950s' seeks to show a society's questioning and searching for solutions to national problems in a decade characterised by high unemployment, poor economic performance, mass emigration and a flight from countryside to the cities.
- Alternative Title
- Ireland in the 1950s
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- History
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 273-297) and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Introduction: The vanishing Irish / Dermot Keogh -- Memory and forgetting : the Ireland of de Valera and Ó Faoláin / John Banville -- Reflecting on Ireland in the 1950s / Brian Fallon -- Leaving the Blaskets, 1953 : willing or enforced departures? / Dermot Keogh -- Population change in the 1950s : a statistical review / Gerry O'Hanlon -- The vanishing Irish? : the exodus from Ireland in the 1950s / Enda Delaney -- The commission on emigration, 1948-1954 / Tracey Connolly -- Changing the rules : why the failures of the 1950s forced a transition in economic policy-making / John Bradley -- Aspects of local health in Ireland in the 1950s / Andrew McCarthy -- "Too fond of going" : female emigration and change for women in Ireland, 1946-1961 / Caitríona Clear -- Before Cadden : abortion in mid-twentieth-century Ireland / Sandra McAvoy -- Tourism and the Irish state in the 1950s / Irene Furlong -- Ireland and the US in the post-war period / Maurice Fitzgerald -- A great time to be in America : the Irish in post-Second World War New York City / Linda Dowling Almeida -- Inadmissible departures : why did the emigrant experience feature so infrequently in the fiction of the Mid-Twentieth century? / James Ryan -- "You want to be a British Paddy?" : the anxiety of identity in post-war Irish migrant writing / Liam Harte -- "Making Aliya" : Irish Jews, the Irish state and Israel / Dermot Keogh.
- ISBN
- 1856354180
- OCLC
- 55481658
- SCSB-11805793
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library