The Development of Industrial Society in Ireland
The Third Joint Meeting of the Royal Irish Academy and the British Academy

9780197261200

Hardback, published 28 January 1993

476 pages, 41 figures
24.3 x 16.4 x 3.2 cm, 0.872 kg

An important text for scholars and students on an aspect of Irish society that has been inadequately covered elsewhere. Ireland is one of the nations of the western world in which industrialization was longest delayed. In these papers, sociologists, economists and political scientists offer 'rich and original insights into how Irish society has developed, particularly over the last 30 years' (Irish Times). Questions of the typicality or 'exceptionalism' of the Irish experience are discussed, and the relevance of this experience for current theories of industrialism and 'modernization' is critically examined.

Subject Areas: British & Irish history [HBJD1]