Irish Nation Building: Government, Business and Power, 1922-1958

This book examines the early decades of economic nation building in Ireland. It draws on a large amount of previously unstudied archival material to construct a novel contribution to Irish business and economic history that focuses on government relations, business power and wider dynamics of power in a decolonising context.

The book adopts a different approach to the early decades of Irish independence, decentering the typical focus on party political developments, Church-state relations ...