Ambiguous republic : Ireland in the 1970s /

Ferriter, Diarmaid, 1972-

Ambiguous republic : Ireland in the 1970s / Diarmaid Ferriter. - xi, 823 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (black and white) 24 cm

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Hard-nosed scholarship and moral passion underpin Diarmaid Ferriter's work.' Now he turns to the key years of the 70s, when after half a century of independence, questions were being asked about the old ways of doing things. Ambiguous Republic considers the widespread social, cultural, economic and political upheavals of the decade, a decade when Ireland joined the EEC; when for the first time a majority of the population lived in urban areas; when economic challenges abounded; which saw too an increasingly visible feminist moment, and institutions including the Church began to be subjected to



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Ireland--Social conditions
Sociology--Ireland
History
European history
c 1970 to c 1979
Ireland


Ireland--History--20th century.
Ireland--Politics and government--20th century.