Business and Economic Development in Ireland, 1916-2016

Prof. Mary Daly, Prof. Cormac O’Grada, Dan O'Brien and Brian Carey

Brian Carey. Business Editor, The Sunday Times, formerly Business Editor, The Sunday Tribune and Journalist with The Sunday Business Post.

Mary E. Daly. President of the Royal Irish Academy, Emeritus Professor of History, University College Dublin and author of Sixties Ireland: Reshaping the Economy, State and Society, 1957-1973 (Cambridge University Press) and Industrial Development and Irish National Identity, 1922-39 (Syracuse University Press).

Dan O’Brien. Chief Economist, The Institute of International and European Affairs and Columnist, The Sunday Independent and The Independent. Former Economics Editor, The Irish Times and Editor at the Economist Intelligence Unit.

Cormac O’Grada. Emeritus Professor of Economics, University College Dublin and author of the Oxford Economic History of Ireland (Oxford University Press) and A Rocky Road: The Irish Economy Since the 1920s (Manchester University Press).

Moderator: Bill Roche, Professor of Industrial Relations and Human Resources, College of Business, University College Dublin and co-editor of Austerity and Recovery in Ireland: Europe’s Poster Child and the Great Recession (Oxford University Press).

Abstract

A group of Ireland’s most distinguished historians and journalists examine the role of business in Ireland's economic development (and calamities) since the country set out on the road to independence in 1916. Contributions... [ view full abstract ]

Session

PL-1 » Business and Economic Development in Ireland, 1916-2016 (16:00 - Wednesday, 31st August, C201)