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Book SynopsisThis book revisits the history of industry and industrial and economic policy in independent Ireland from the birth of the state to the eve of EEC accession. Though there were several manufacturing employers of significance, and smaller firms in operation in almost every major branch of industry, the Irish Free State was predominantly agricultural at its establishment in 1922. Industrial development was high on the nationalist agenda, as would be the case across the entire developing world in the later post-colonial era. Despite decades of protection, and a substantial increase in the size of the manufacturing sector, Ireland remained under-industrialised when it joined the European Economic Community in 1973. Over the previous decade and a half however the foundations of later convergence had been laid. Ireland was an early adopter of what would come to be known as dual-track reform. The policy of attracting outward-oriented foreign direct investment was initiated before substantial t
Table of Contents1: Vantage Point, 1972 2: The Pre-1922 Southern Business Establishment and its Legacy 3: Firms of Note in 1922 4: The Irish Free State of the 1920s 5: From the Great Depression to the End of the Emergency 6: The Post-War World and Dual-Track Reform 7: Trade Liberalisation and the Road to Europe 8: The Industrial Landscape of 1972 and Beyond 9: Epilogue
