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Preventing the Future by Tom Garvin
Why was Ireland so poor for so long?
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THE IMPORTANT question that UCD Professor of Politics Tom Garvin seeks to answer in this book is why did Ireland have such low rates of economic growth in the late 1940s and 1950s, in contrast to the continental countries that had been devastated in World War II?
The culprits that he blames for delaying modern Ireland's industrial take-off until the 1960s are: the anti-economic mind-set of the state's key political and social elites, rooted as they were in the social conditions of the inter-war years; and the Irish Catholic Church for fostering such a mind-set, in particular through its hold on the educational system, which was oriented towards the professions rather than science and practical learning and which for decades denied schooling to most young people beyond the age of 14.
Why was Ireland so poor for so long?
Quote:
THE IMPORTANT question that UCD Professor of Politics Tom Garvin seeks to answer in this book is why did Ireland have such low rates of economic growth in the late 1940s and 1950s, in contrast to the continental countries that had been devastated in World War II?
The culprits that he blames for delaying modern Ireland's industrial take-off until the 1960s are: the anti-economic mind-set of the state's key political and social elites, rooted as they were in the social conditions of the inter-war years; and the Irish Catholic Church for fostering such a mind-set, in particular through its hold on the educational system, which was oriented towards the professions rather than science and practical learning and which for decades denied schooling to most young people beyond the age of 14.