Irish habits, global ideology and
Irish Life and Permanent
Irish model; enthusiasm for
Irish Nationwide
Irish Independent
Irish Times
IT projects
James Hardie
Katona, Kerry
Keane, John B.
Kelly, Anto
Kelly, Christine
Kelly, Kevin
Kelly, Morgan
Kelly, Paddy
Kenny report (Report of the Committee on the Price of Building Land)
Kerrigan, Gene
Keynes, John Maynard
Kilroy, Thomas
land prices
Latvia First
Latvia’s Way
Lawlor, Liam
Le Monde, on Ireland
Leahy, Pat
Lee, Joe: on national income
Lenihan, Brian
Lithuania in the World
Lobo Sosa, Porfirio
Lowry, Michael
McAteer, Willie
McCain, John
McCann Fitzgerald
McCaughey, Gerry
McCracken tribunal
McCreevy, Charlie ; credo of; tax cuts and
McDowell, Michael
McFadden, Brian
McGann, Gary
McGonigal
McKeown, Hugh
McKillen, Paddy
McManus, J. P.
McNamara, Bernard
Magnier, John
Mahon tribunal
Mansergh, Martin
manufacturing jobs; decline of; as engine of growth
Martin, Micheál
Mitchell, Daniel
Morgan Stanley Real Estate
Moriarty tribunal
Mulryan, Sean
Murphy, Tom
Murray, Charles
NAMA (National Asset Management Agency)
National Competitiveness Council
national income
National Irish Bank
National Spatial Strategy
Neary, Pat
neo-liberals
New York Times
non-residents, tax avoidance by, see DIRT
O’Brien, Denis
O’Brien, Eugene
O’Brien, Henry
O’Brien, Justin
O’Callaghan, Owen
O’Connell, Maurice
O’Connor, Pádraic
O’Dea, Willie
O’Dolan, John
O’Donoghue, John
O’Faoláin, Seán
O’Farrell, Brian
O Grada, Cormac
O’Grady-Walshe, Timothy
O’Halloran, Mark
Ó hEithir, Breandán
O’Leary, Michael
O’Reilly, Joe
O’Reilly, Liam
O’Reilly, Tony
O’Reilly-Hyland, Ken
O’Rourke, Kevin
Obama, Barack
Orwell, George
Parlon, Tom
Parmalat
Pfizer
political ideas
political power
population growth
populist politics
poverty; levels of consistent
Powell, Benjamin
production
Progressive Democrats
property boom; see also construction industry
Public Accounts Committee (PAC)
public services
public spending, cuts in
Quinlan, Derek
Quinn, Ruairi
Quinn, Seán
Recks, Declan
Redmond, George
Reddy, Tony
Richardson, Des
Riverdance
Robinson, Mary
Ronan, Johnny
Ross, Seamus
Salmond, Alex
Scanlan, Gerry
Slattery, William
Smurfit, Michael
social ambition, poverty of
social democracy
social goals
social partnership
social services
Spollen, Tony
sports stadium
Stephenson, Sam
Stewart, Jim
Sunday Independent
Sunday Tribune
Sutherland, Peter
Swift, Jonathan
tax avoidance/evasion; see also DIRT
tax cuts
tax incentives
Teahon, Paddy
TNCs (transnational corporations)
Tóibín, Colm
transport policies
Traynor, Des
Trinidad government, seminar by
Ulster Bank
unemployment
US News and World Report
US/Uruguay chamber of commerce
van der Kamp, Henk
Wall Street Journal, The: Irish economy and
Wall Street Journal/Heritage Foundation Index of Economic Freedom, The
Washington Speakers Bureau
Westlife
William Fry
Women’s liberation movement
About the Author
FINTAN O’TOOLE is an acclaimed historian, biographer and critic. As a columnist with the Irish Times, he is Ireland’s most respected and controversial political commentator, whose name was almost a term of abuse among the politicians who presided over the economic debacle of recent years. His books include White Savage and A Traitor’s Kiss.
PublicAffairs is a publishing house founded in 1997. It is a tribute to the standards, values, and flair of three persons who have served as mentors to countless reporters, writers, editors, and book people of all kinds, including me.
I. F. STONE, proprietor of I. F. Stone’s Weekly, combined a commitment to the First Amendment with entrepreneurial zeal and reporting skill and became one of the great independent journalists in American history. At the age of eighty, Izzy published The Trial of Socrates, which was a national bestseller. He wrote the book after he taught himself ancient Greek.
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