An Economic History of Ireland Since Independence

Bielenberg, Andy; Ryan, Raymond

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“…76 The prominence of manufacturing of food and beverages, in particular, reflects the industrial legacy inherited by the newly independent Irish Free State in the 1920s: an Irish industry predominantly focussed on agriculture and manufacture of goods based on the processing of agricultural raw materials (such as brewing, distilling, bacon curing, biscuits, sugar production), in which agricultural output, food, and beverages accounted for 86% of Irish exports. 77 This agricultural past is evident in large firms in 1978, as 11 of the 19 food processing firms are organised as dairy co-operatives and are indicative of an Irish co-operative movement whose origins can be traced back to the 1890s. 78 The EEC's Common Agricultural Policy (CAP), however, inevitably led to significant changes in both structure and strategy of these Irish food processing co-operatives.…”

Section: Sectors Of Activity Of Large Irish Firmsmentioning

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Strategic transformations in large Irish-owned businesses

O’Gorman

Curran

2016

Business History

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This research explores resistance to a universal business organisation by analysing large firms in Ireland. Drawing on our dataset of large Irish firms, an SSOP informed study identifies strategic transformations such as increased internationalisation and changes in ownership regime across three benchmark years of 1978, 1990 and 2010. However large Irish firms are not characterised by convergence to a universal business organisation. This study contributes to the SSOP project by extending it to a new geographic context and, by including sector of activity, by providing a contextually sensitive explanation for the absence of a universally applicable business organisation.

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Section: Sectors Of Activity Of Large Irish Firmsmentioning

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Strategic transformations in large Irish-owned businesses

O’Gorman

Curran

2016

Business History

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“…1984 saw the introduction of the Company Development Programme to assist indigenous company planning (Bielenberg & Ryan, , p. 29). In 1985, the National Linkage Programme sought to achieve a more integrated development pattern between indigenous and foreign enterprises (Brunt, , p. 32).…”

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“…“The Telesis report led to some measure of industrial policy reform, though this was less interventionist than the report envisaged” (Bielenberg & Ryan, , p. 29). Industrial policy gradually responded to the critiques of Telesis () and the NESC () (Ó'Gráda, ), but it is incorrect to regard the policy changes arising from Telesis and the subsequent White Paper as a break with extant industrial policy.…”

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A Discursive Institutionalist Approach to Understanding Comparative Policy Change:Ireland andMexico in the 1980s

Hogan¹,

O'Rourke²

2015

Latin American Policy

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Employing the critical juncture theory, a discursive institutionalist approach, this article examines the nature of changes to Irish industrial policy and to Mexican macroeconomic policy in the early 1980s. Were these significant changes, or were they continuations of previously established policy pathways? The critical juncture theory consists of three elements—economic crisis, ideational change, and the nature of the policy change—that we must identify to be able to declare with some certainty if the policy changes constituted critical junctures. Our findings will help explain why Irish industrial policy did not undergo a radical transformation during the 1980s, whereas Mexican macroeconomic policy underwent major change.

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“…Despite such autonomy there was no radical departure from established monetary arrangements. The existing historiography suggests a real ambivalence among Irish decision makers regarding the establishment of a central bank in the 1920s (Ó Gráda 1994, p. 425; Bielenberg and Ryan 2013, pp. 9–16).…”

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The Bank of England, Montagu Norman and the internationalisation of Anglo-Irish monetary relations, 1922–1943

Drea

2013

Financial History Review

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The granting of a £7,000m bilateral loan by the British government to the Republic of Ireland in October 2010 highlights the banking co-dependence of modern Anglo-Irish relations. This article provides a Bank-of-England-centred perspective on the development of Irish monetary institutions from the granting of Irish monetary independence in December 1921 to the establishment of the Central Bank of Ireland in 1943. Irrespective of unresolved Anglo-Irish political issues, the Bank of England's Irish policy during this period was based on a strict adherence to Montagu Norman's key central banking principles of co-operation, exclusiveness and political autonomy. This article identifies that the application of these principles survived both the coming to power of Fianna Fáil (Soldiers of Destiny) in Southern Ireland in 1932 and the outbreak of war in 1939. This article also argues that Norman's adherence to a wider internationalist view of monetary relations played an important role in forcing the overwhelmingly Protestant and pro-union Irish commercial banks, headed by the Bank of Ireland, to come to terms with the reality of Irish monetary independence. In this context, Norman's approach to Southern Ireland parallels the transition from Empire to Commonwealth, which began to emerge in the interwar period.

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An Economic History of Ireland Since Independence

Cited by 37 publications

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Strategic transformations in large Irish-owned businesses

Strategic transformations in large Irish-owned businesses

A Discursive Institutionalist Approach to Understanding Comparative Policy Change:Ireland andMexico in the 1980s

The Bank of England, Montagu Norman and the internationalisation of Anglo-Irish monetary relations, 1922–1943

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