Ireland's Celtic Tiger of the nineties was in great part driven by a new and highly educated, and technically trained workforce. The political stalemates of the forties and fifties delayed the initial, incomplete take-off until the sixties, and resulted in the Tiger arriving nearly a generation later than it might have.
Tom Garvin's bestselling and thought-provoking book looks at Ireland's public policy from 1920 to 1970, which, he argues, left large numbers of young people without preparation for life in the modern world.
Tom Garvin's bestselling and thought-provoking book looks at Ireland's public policy from 1920 to 1970, which, he argues, left large numbers of young people without preparation for life in the modern world.