Church, State and Social Science in Ireland
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A01=Maria Feeney
A01=Peter Murray
Americanisation
Author_Maria Feeney
Author_Peter Murray
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Church
Education
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Human capital
Scientific research
State
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- ISBN 9781526100788
- Weight: 558g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 16 Nov 2016
- Publisher: Manchester University Press
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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The immense power the Catholic Church once wielded in Ireland has considerably diminished over the last fifty years. During the same period the Irish state has pursued new economic and social development goals by wooing foreign investors and throwing the state's lot in with an ever-widening European integration project. How a less powerful church and a more assertive state related to one another during the key third quarter of the twentieth century is the subject of this book. Drawing on newly available material, it looks at how social science, which had been a church monopoly, was taken over and bent to new purposes by politicians and civil servants. This case study casts new light on wider processes of change, and the story features a strong and somewhat surprising cast of characters ranging from Sean Lemass and T.K. Whitaker to Archbishop John Charles McQuaid and Father Denis Fahey.
Peter Murray is Lecturer in Sociology at Maynooth University, Ireland
Maria Feeney has lectured in Sociology and Education at Maynooth University, Ireland
