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Preventing the Future: Why was Ireland so Poor for so Long? Garvin Tom (Dublin: Gill and Macmillan, 2004), xiv+278pp., ISBN: 0717137716
The Economy of Ireland: National and Sectoral Policy Issues O'Hagan J. and Newman C. (eds.) (9th edition) (Dublin: Gill and Macmillan, 2005), xvi+304pp., ISBN: 0717138402

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 January 2026

Michael Keating
Michael Keating*
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Department of Political and Social Sciences, European University Institute, Badia Fiesolana, Via dei Roccettini 9, I-50016 San Domenico di Fiesole, Florence, Italy
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E-mail: Michael.Keating@iue.it
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European Political Science , Volume 5 , Issue 4 , December 2006, pp. 434 - 440
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Copyright © 2006 European Consortium for Political Research

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Lee, J.J. (1989) Ireland, 1912–1985. Politics and Society Cambridge: Cambridge University PressGoogle Scholar

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