{"product_id":"inside-rural-ireland-power-and-change-since-independence-paperback","title":"Inside Rural Ireland: Power and Change Since Independence - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eTom?s Finn\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor), \u003cb\u003eTony Varley\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFresh analyses on decades of rural and agricultural centrality in Ireland, and the power players seeking influence over rural outcomes.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e 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 economic primacy or the countryside's central position. It was not until the severe crisis conditions in the 1950s that a transformation began, setting southern Ireland on a gradual path toward urban industrialism. Exploring rural Ireland before and after this momentous transition, the contributors to \u003ci\u003eInside Rural Ireland\u003c\/i\u003e examine the power of varying groups--ruling politicians and state bodies, farmers, clerical and non-clerical civic activists, intellectuals (social commentators, as well as fiction writers), returned emigrants, and farm women--to promote or impede rural changes. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e The book reveals that the state's power to promote rural change has contracted and expanded throughout the years since Ireland joined the European Union in 1973. Furthermore, it explores divided views on the impact of urban industrialism on rural interests. Throughout much of the period, since the 1950s, the power of organized farmers to represent Irish farming interests remained high as the number of those working the land continued to dwindle. In recent decades, the persisting limited power of clerical activists and intellectuals to restructure rural civil society along Catholic or Christian lines has undergone further decline. Most recently, the prospects for farm women to increase their relative power have arguably improved the most, in certain respects, even if land ownership still remains stubbornly in male hands. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 300\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e November 06, 2024\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42736545267775,"sku":"9781739086367","price":68.04,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0105\/8226\/1823\/files\/fe44684c24bf46634ea5899a8c6f916b.webp?v=1765147013","url":"https:\/\/dhlswag.com\/products\/inside-rural-ireland-power-and-change-since-independence-paperback","provider":"BBB","version":"1.0","type":"link"}