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Mon 08 Aug 2009Historian condemns State's 'fatalism and cuts'
MERRIMAN SUMMER SCHOOL:THE UNPRECEDENTED political incompetence and mismanagement of recent times would have to be dealt with through a combination of creativity, questioning, protest, voluntary effort, hope, defiance and originality, the historian Diarmaid Ferriter said at yesterday’s opening of the Merriman Summer School in Ennis.
Prof Ferriter, speaking on The Lost Decade? Crisis, Continuity and Change in 1950s Ireland, drew parallels with the current crisis.
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