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The Irish answer.
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Gray, Tony.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Ireland--Civilization.
- Ireland.
- Civilization.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copies 1 & 2)
- Physical Description:
- 429 pages
- Edition:
- [First American edition].
- Place of Publication:
- Boston : Little, Brown, [1966]
- Summary:
- Sketches Ireland's history to 1916 and gives an intimate fifty-year progress report on Irish life, from 1916 to 1965.
- Contents:
- TABLE OF CONTENTS
- Rebirth of a nation
- Dublin, Ireland, Easter
- The formative centuries: history to 1916
- The troubles: 1916 to 1923
- The managerial revolution: 1923 to 1959
- Blueprint for prosperity
- The property and the plan: the new industrialists
- The old industry: agriculture
- Water, water, everywhere: turf, electric power, fisheries
- Island on holiday: tourism
- Trains, and boats, and planes: transportation
- Matters of opinion
- Through the medium: the Irish language
- "Indecent and obscene": censorship
- Words on the windowpane: the communicators
- The school around the corner: education
- Wind of change: the church
- Domestic affairs
- The bachelor boys: love and marriage
- The inner Irishman: food and drink
- The policeman's lot: law and order
- Shadow and substance: health and wealth
- Time off: sport and leisure
- External assets
- The wild geese: the Irish abroad
- Not an inch: the border question.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 409-410).
- Local Notes:
- Gotham Book Mart Collection copy 2 has dustjacket retained.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Gray, Tony. Irish answer.
- OCLC:
- 400350
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