Irish representatives have one good point to make on the issue, but keep making bad ones
John FitzGerald: Government policies have seen better outcomes thanks to domestic expertise
Seán Lemass: Historic meeting uncovered ‘bare, hard-rock prejudices’
Seán Lemass tapes: 1958 plan to reverse protectionism and open Ireland up to foreign investment had a galvanising effect on the economy
Kim Haughton has photographed 100 people, one born every year since foundation of the State
Influential civil servant’s son pays tribute to ‘wonderful father and great patriot’
Policies of protectionism helped to ensure Ireland was a backwater for 50 years
His sense of purpose told him the State could not continue as it was in the late 1950s, losing its population to mass emigration and its morale to creeping despair
TKWhitaker: Central Bank governor – turned bank into a dynamic institution
TK Whitaker: Making of a civil servant – Long life mirrored State’s journey through economic and political upheaval
TK Whitaker: the young civil servant – talent was evident from beginning of civil service career
Core lesson remains that we must be competitive internationally to prosper
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