Irish independent Friday, December 4, 1987.
Scrap useless Seanad.
Young accept bleak future here.
Pressure grows to quit work early.
Cigarette sales start to level off.
So shocked Conor Gearty has died
He was a fearless lawyer, teacher and writer
He was also one of the wittiest, smartest people you’d ever meet. It was an honour to call him a friend
I will miss him, terribly. Thoughts with his family, in London and Longford
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Estimated populations from-Ireland-living-abroad and from-abroad-living-in-Ireland by destination/origin from 1990-2024
Current account balance estimates (% GDP) of the United Kingdom by component since 1800. Source: World Historical BoP Database wbop.world#data
Number of people from the Republic of Ireland living abroad was around 714,000 in 2024, according to latest UN migrant stock estimates www.un.org/development/...
Population of the Republic of Ireland was 5.5 million in April 2025, according to latest CSO estimates www.cso.ie/en/releasesa...
Irish-born population living in Ireland and abroad by county/state in 1870/71. Largest population were in New York (528,806), Cork (501,664) and Antrim (391,816).
Global trade exports (% of world GDP) from 1800-2025. Source: Nievas & Piketty's Historical BoP Database wbop.world#data
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Population of Ireland (5.44m) is now the 18th highest in the European Union overtaking Slovakia (5.42m), according to latest Eurostat estimates ec.europa.eu/eurostat/dat...
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Why was the Irish Famine was so severe? Why did the North and South develop differently? Is Ireland ‘rich’?
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The Development of the Irish Economy Can economics help us understand why the Irish Famine was so severe? What explains Ireland's long economic boom of the eighteenth century? Why did the North an...
