Slow Failure: Population Decline and Independent Ireland, 1920-1973

by Mary E. Daly

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0299212904
• ISBN13: 9780299212902
• Release Date: February 2006
• Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
• Length: 454 Pages
• Weight: 1.76 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.1" x 9.3"