Church, State and Social Science in Ireland: Knowledge Institutions and the Rebalancing of Power, 1937-73

by Peter Murray and Maria Feeney

Book Overview

The immense power the Catholic Church once wielded in Ireland has considerably diminished over the last fifty years. During the same period the Irish state has pursued new economic and social development goals by wooing foreign investors and throwing the state's lot in with an ever-widening European integration project. How a less powerful church and a more assertive state related to one another during the key third quarter of the twentieth century...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1526121727
• ISBN13: 9781526121721
• Release Date: December 2018
• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.1"