GEOG 002 Lecture 9: Geog 2 - LEC9
23 Dec 2020
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The republic of ireland fought itself free from british colonial rule just three generations ago. Another 2 million irish left for north america and other shores. Hard-won independence in 1921 did not bring real economic prosperity until the final decades of the twentieth century, when ireland became known as the celtic tiger. Among these immigrants were thousands of people of irish descent returning from foreign places to take jobs at home, workers from elsewhere in the. European union (including large numbers of poles), and job-seekers from african and. For some time, ireland had the highest economic growth rate in the eu, and its capital, dublin, became an international business node almost overnight. By 2007, however, ireland"s economic boom began to fade, and a year later things proceeded to fall apart: the real estate market stagnated, service industries found more favorable conditions in east- ern europe, and unemployment accelerated.
