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Ambiguous republic : Ireland in the 1970s / Diarmaid Ferriter.

By: Material type: TextTextLondon : Profile Books, 2012Description: xi, 823 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (black and white) 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781846684685
Subject(s): Also issued online.Summary: 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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Item type Current library Call number Status Date due Barcode
General General ATU Dublin Road General Shelves 941.50824 FER (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available J151652
General General ATU Mayo General Shelves 941.50824 FER (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available J168515

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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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