Slow failure, the: population decline and independent ireland, 1920-1973
Auteur :
Daly, Mary E.
Éditeur :
University of Wisconsin Press
ISBN :
9780299212902
Date de publication :
28 févr. 2006
Dimensions :
23,5 x 15,5 x 3,4 cm
Poids :
798 g
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
USA
Between 1922 and 1966 - most of the first fifty years after independence - the population of Ireland was falling, in the 1950s as rapidly as in the 1880s. This book examines not just the reasons for the decline, but the responses to it by politicians, academics, journalists, churchmen, and others who agonized over their nation's "slow failure.