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The Slow Failure - Population Decline and Independent Ireland, 1920-1973 (Hardcover)
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The Slow Failure - Population Decline and Independent Ireland, 1920-1973 (Hardcover)
Series: History of Ireland and the Irish Diaspora
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Today Ireland's population is rising, immigration outpaces
emigration, most families have two or at most three children, and
full-time farmers are in steady decline. But the opposite was true
for more than a century, from the great famine of the 1840s until
the 1960s. 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. Mary Daly's "The Slow Failure"
examines not just the reasons for the decline, but the responses to
it by politicians, academics, journalists, churchmen, and others
who publicly agonized over their nation's "slow failure." Eager to
reverse population decline but fearful that economic development
would undermine Irish national identity, they fashioned statistical
evidence to support ultimately fruitless policies to encourage
large, rural farm families. Focusing on both Irish government and
society, Daly places Ireland's population history in the mainstream
history of independent Ireland.
Daly's research reveals how pastoral visions of an ideal Ireland
made it virtually impossible to reverse the fall in population.
Promoting large families, for example, contributed to late
marriages, actually slowing population growth further. The crucial
issue of emigration failed to attract serious government attention
except during World War II; successive Irish governments refused to
provide welfare services for emigrants, leaving that role to the
Catholic Church. Daly takes these and other elements of an
often-sad story, weaving them into essential reading for
understanding modern Irish history
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