In the 1950s the Irish economy contracted, and over four hundred thousand people, out of a population of fewer than three million, emigrated.

Examines the birth of the Irish state and sets it in its European historical context.

Tom Garvin's bestselling and thought-provoking book looks at Ireland's public policy from 1920 to 1970, which, he argues, left large numbers of young people without preparation for life in the modern world.

A re-issue of a classic work that studies the growth of nationalism in Ireland from the middle of the eighteenth century to modern times.