In 2002, an eighty-five-year-old former civil servant was voted 'Irishman of the Century'. Widely regarded as "the architect of modern Ireland", T.K. Whitaker's
This title is suitable for final year undergraduates, postgraduates and academics in the fields of Irish studies, development economics and comparative history.
Assessing the relative importance of British influence and of indigenous impulses in shaping an independent Ireland, this book identifies the relationship betwe