Jettisoning the ‘Antique Furniture’ Post-Independence

Emmet Oliver ()

Chapter Chapter 1 in Irish Nation Building, 2025, pp 1-30 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract While the historic resolution of the contentious ‘Irish question’ in 1921, via treaty, was hugely consequential in constitutional, political and military terms, it was not just the Financial TimesFinancial Times which struggled to explain its immediate economic import for either southern Ireland or Britain. The granting of dominion status to southern Ireland in 1921 was replete with multiple meanings, but few of them were immediately economic.

Keywords: Commanding Heights; Transformation; Services; Trading; Government–Business; Decolonising; Periphery (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-84931-2_1

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