Preventing the Future: Why was Ireland so poor for so long?

Tom Garvin

Published by Gill & Macmillan, Dublin, 2004

About this Item

First Edition (Number Line to 1). Both the book and dust jacket are in very good condition. Beginning with the book, you can see the black covers in the photos. They are very clean. The gilt lettering on the spine is nicely bright. There is a little crinkling at both spine ends. The six cover edges are in perfect condition, as are the four corners. The page edges are very clean. The book is very solidly bound from cover to cover with nicely tight pages throughout and nicely tight covers as well. The inside covers and end papers are perfectly clean. That describes all the pages in the book. Scrolling through, I'm not finding any instances of soiling. A thin bit of the bottom corner of one page has a crease, far from the print. A page or two before and after that one have a slight one as well. I didn't see any creasing anywhere else. There are no placeholder creases. There are no markings in the book. No attachments of any kind. There is a signed inscription from one friend to another, a birthday inscription, on the front end paper. There is no other writing to be found anywhere else in the book. The dust jacket can be seen in the first few photos. It is very clean. There are no tears. There are a few small crinkles. The flaps are in solid condition, perfectly clean, no tears. Both flaps have thin bit of crinkling at the top edge. The jacket is not priced or clipped. It will be fitted with a protective cover after the photos are scanned. From the dust jacket 'Between the years of the mid-thirties through to 1960, independent Ireland suffered from economic stagnation, and also went through a period of intense cultural and psychological repression. While external circumstances account for much of the stagnation-- especially the depression of the thirties and the Second World War--Preventing the Future argues that the situation was aggravated by internal circumstances. The key domestic factor was the failure to extend higher and technical education and training to larger sections of the population. This derived from political stalemates in a small country which derived in turn from the power of the Catholic Church, the strength of the small-farm community, the ideological wish to preserve an older society and, later, gerontocratic tendencies in the clinical elites and in society as a whole. While economic growth didn't accelerate after 1960, the political stand-off over mass education resulted in large numbers of young people being denied preparation for life in the modern world and, arguably, denied Ireland a sufficient supply of trained labor and educated citizens. 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.'. Seller Inventory # 004833

Bibliographic Details

Title: Preventing the Future: Why was Ireland so ...

Publisher: Gill & Macmillan, Dublin

Publication Date: 2004

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good

Edition: 1st Edition