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Genre/Form: | History |
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Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Terence A M Dooley |
ISBN: | 1904558151 9781904558156 1904558143 9781904558149 |
OCLC Number: | 55796041 |
Description: | xii, 306 pages : maps ; 23 cm |
Contents: | Introduction -- Continuing the land question; Agrarian disorder, 1917-23 -- The 1923 Land Act, its origins, purpose and significance -- Fianna Fail and land reform policy, 1932-48 -- 'Reversing Cromwell's policy': migration schemes, 1923-48 -- Ambivalent attitudes and changing policies, 1948-73 -- Land and the lost politics of independent Ireland, 1923-73 -- Conclusion. |
Responsibility: | Terence Dooley. |
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"Dooley has an eye for the ridiculous as well as for the significant. He does the topic glorious justice, illustrating by his wide-ranging trawl through the subject that melodramatic goings-on in public life are just as dramatic as any play peopled by characters such as John B Keane's Bull, who lives in every parish throughout the nation." Irish Independent August 2004 "Written in a highly readable style, this book gives a very useful insight into the Irish land question and provides a useful template for further local studies that the author hopes his work will serve to stimulate." Limerick Leader July 2004 "Maynooth historian Dooley shows that the land question that contributed so much to achieving independence remained very much alive thereafter ... Statistics and a few maps and a text claimed to be approachable by the general reader." Books Ireland Sept 2004 "Anyone interested in their roots, in the roots of much of the rural social fabric of today in Kildare, and in the traditional values imposed on so many will enjoy this expansive, articulate work." Leinster Leader Nov 2004 "Dr Terence Dooley has made a significant contribution to our understanding of Ireland's social and economic development. It is highly recommended." Tipperary Historical Journal 2005 "While historians, along with English literature compatriots, dissect the writings of James Joyce and William Butler Yeats to find convenient metaphors for explaining Ireland's past, the book by Terence Dooley goes to the heart of the matter and presents a workmanlike account of how 'independent Ireland's' most important asset, its land, was redistributed and reorganised." Irish Economic and Social History 2005 "a most worthwhile and illuminating study. Its style is lucid, it presents the complexities of the land question in a clear but not simplistic manner, and, by using a wide range of sources including government department records and reports, personal papers, legislation, newspapers and oral evidence, it opens up an area of research hitherto relatively neglected." Irish Studies Review 14 (4) 2006 "[Dooley's] book usefully 'challenges the widely held orthodoxy that there was no land question in independent Ireland'." Economic History Review, Feb 2007 Read more...


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