The slow failure : population decline and independent Ireland, 1922-1973 /
"At the outset of the twenty-first century, 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...
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Madison, Wis. :
University of Wisconsin Press,
©2006.
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| Series: | History of Ireland and the Irish diaspora
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Table of Contents:
- The pathology of Irish demographic history
- Saving rural Ireland : 1920-1960
- Marriages, births, and fertility : the Irish family
- The Irish state and its emigrants : 1922-1954
- The vanishing Irish : 1954-1961
- 1961-1971 : "A worthy homeland for the Irish people"?
- "A ticket to London is a ticket to hell" : emigrants, emigrant welfare, and images of Ireland.