The Slow Failure: Population Decline and Independent Ireland, 1920–1973

Contents

List of Tables ix Acknowledgments xi List of Abbreviations xiii 1 The Pathology of Irish Demographic History 3 2 Saving Rural Ireland: 1920–1960 21 3 Marriages, Births, and Fertility: The Irish Family 75 4 The Irish State and Its Emigrants: 1922–1954 138 5 The Vanishing Irish: 1954 –1961 183 6 1961–1971: “A Worthy Homeland for the Irish People”? 222 vii Contents 7 “A Ticket to London Is a Ticket to Hell”: Emigrants, Emigrant Welfare, and Images of Ireland 256 Statistical Appendix 329 Notes 331 Bibliography 395 Index 417 viii Contents ...