Growth In Ireland Research Articles

Trade union growth in Ireland, 1943–1977

This paper reports some results which were obtained when the Bain and Elsheikh model of union growth was employed in an analysis of the Irish experience during the period 1943 to 1977.

The Pound and the Punt: A Study in Exchange Rate Policy

The rise in sterling during 1979 and 1980 was a remarkable and largely unexpected development While it has been accepted that the rise in the exchange rate played an important part in the reduction in the UK inflation rate during 1980 it has also been suggested that the appreciation of sterling was a major cause of the fall in output, particularly in the manufacturing sector.In this Viewpoint we attempt to assess the effect of the rise in sterling on output and inflation by comparing the performance of the UK economy with that of the Irish Republic. As a member of the European Monetary System (EMS), Ireland shared the general depreciation of the European currencies against sterling. We suggest that the result has been a higher rate of inflation in Ireland than in the UK Also, although the Irish manufacturing sector avoided the UK's loss of competitiveness, the fall in manufacturing output in Ireland during 1980 was ‐ when allowance is made for a higher underlying rate of growth in Ireland ‐ comparable to that in the UK

Economic Growth in Ireland: The Experience Since 1947. By Kieran A. Kennedy and Brendan R. Dowling. New York, Barnes and Noble Books, 1975. Pp. xix + 345. $22.50.

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Economic Growth in Ireland. The Experience Since 1947.

Journal Article Economic Growth in Ireland. The Experience since 1947 Get access Economic Growth in Ireland. The Experience since 1947. By K. A. KENNEDY and B. R. DOWLING. (Dublin: Gill and Macmillan in association with the Economic and Social Research Institute, 1975. Pp. xix + 345. £11.00.) N. Cuthbert N. Cuthbert University of the West Indies Barbados, W.I. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Economic Journal, Volume 86, Issue 342, 1 June 1976, Pages 414–416, https://doi.org/10.2307/2230788 Published: 01 June 1976

Economic Growth, Capital Investment, and the Roman Catholic Church in Nineteenth-Century Ireland

Our poverty may appear contemptible, and even sordid, wrote Patrick Curtis, the archbishop of Armagh, to his agent in Rome in I825, but it is not really so. We are, indeed, very poor, and I believe you know, he explained, dignifying the twenty pounds he enclosed for the rebuilding of St. Paul's Basilica in Rome, my Mitre, though Primatial, is one of the poorest in Ireland: and yet the claims on us are increasing. Seventyfive years later, almost to the day, in I900, his successor in the primatial see of Armagh, Michael Cardinal Logue, cleared over thirty thousand pounds in a single bazaar for the purpose of decorating the interior of his cathedral, and could afford to send regularly every year some six hundred pounds in Peter's pence to Rome.2 What happened in those seventy-five years to account for this remarkable increase in the resources of the Church? This question might not prove nearly as interesting or even important, if Ireland, like Belgium, had experienced the full effects of an Industrial Revolution in the nineteenth century. Instead, by the turn of the century, well over five million people had fled the country, as Ireland remained one of the more economically backward areas in Western Europe. The anomaly, therefore, of a church that appeared to be growing ever more wealthy in a seemingly stagnant and chronically depressed economy raises a further question: what effect did the acquisition by the Church of a considerable amount of property over a relatively short period of time have on capital investment and economic growth in Ireland?

Marriage and Population Growth in Ireland, 1750–1845

Marriage and Population Growth in Ireland, 1750–1845

Marriage and Population Growth in Ireland, 1750-1845

Marriage and Population Growth in Ireland, 1750-1845