Inside Rural Ireland: Power and Change since Independence

Fresh analyses on decades of rural and agricultural centrality in Ireland, and the power players seeking influence over rural outcomes.

In the early decades of twentieth-century Ireland, a new kind of farmer, one who was among the landowners who emerged as the major winners in the recent agricultural revolution, exerted considerable influence over the new Free State and Irish Catholicism. After 1932, the strides of industrialization were never strong enough to threaten agriculture’s economi...