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The key domestic factor was the failure to extend higher and technical education and training to larger sections of the population. This derived from political stalemates in a small country which derived in turn from the power of the Catholic Church, the strength of the small-farm community, the ideological wish to preserve an older society and, later, gerontocratic tendencies in the political elites and in society as a whole.     While economic growth did accelerate after 1960, the political stand-off over mass education resulted in large numbers of young people being denied preparation for life in the modern world and, arguably, denied Ireland a sufficient supply of trained labour and educated citizens. Ireland’s Celtic Tiger of the nineties was in great part driven by a new and highly educated and technically trained workforce. 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We did it our way.’ - Dermot Keogh, The Irish Times     'Seventy years ago science was made optional in primary schools to allow more time for the Irish language – even though many of the pupils could hardly read English. The state deliberately neglected technical education, with the Education Minister in the early 1950s stating that, after religious formation, the “inculcation of patriotism is the second great goal of education”. 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The process of democratic nation-making reached full fruition while a vicious civil war was raging, ostensibly fought over points of political principle but actually deciding whether Ireland was to be ruled by popular majority will or by a virtuous but unaccountable minority. Garvin argues that militant republicanism always lacked popular, democratic legitimacy. The mainstream Irish nationalist tradition was moderate and realistic, and it was this nation-building tradition that triumphed in 1922. The stability and good order of the Irish state owes much to this victory. In particular, because the democratic impulse in Irish life overcame the cult of the virtuous minority, Ireland did not go the way of so many other newly emerging European states. There were to be no military dictators or fascist interludes; instead, there evolved a stable democracy which eventually came to include most of those defeated in 1922. Tom Garvin. delivers in full measure those qualities which those who know his earlier work will be looking for: new source material, a nose for the big issue, jugular-grasping directness of expression, fertile international comparisons, arresting and sometimes breathtakingly bold judgments. Since there are half a dozen of these to every page, even a big sample could hardly do justice to the impact of his writing.-Charles Townshend, Irish Political Studies.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49564510748945,"sku":"GOR006094598","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":52325320130833,"sku":"GOR006132302","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0717139697.jpg?v=1750881059"},{"product_id":"news-from-a-new-republic-book-tom-garvin-9780717150588","title":"News From A New Republic","description":"‘A fascinating, and often surprising, study of Fifties Ireland’   Dermot Bolger, Sunday Independent     ‘Another revealing and insightful book by one of our best historians—and a timely reminder that the past is not such a foreign country after all’    Andrew Lynch, Sunday Business Post     ‘A new look at what’s regarded as the darkest decade in our modern history throws light on the trials of today’   Stephen Collins, The Irish Times     ‘A triumphant success . . . the 1950s come alive with an immediacy and crackle seldom found in more conventional histories’ History Ireland        The 1950s was a decade of international economic recovery in the United States and most of Western Europe after the disasters of World War II. 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