Crisis and Comeback
Cork in the Eighties
How does a city survive its worst recession in living memory?Cork entered the 1980s with swagger. The 1970s had been dominated nationally by the city's favourite son, Jack Lynch, who was Taoiseach for much of the decade. And the sense of superiority wasn't confined to the political arena. The city had given Ireland a world-class rock star in Rory Gallagher, and boasted one of the first internationally recognised film festivals. Cork bustled: Patrick Street on a Saturday afternoon heaved with shoppers in Roches Stores and Cash's. There was a stability to the city, anchored by the institutions from which it drew its identity: the university, th…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-1-78841-055-7
- EAN: 9781788410557
- Produktnummer: 29186408
- Verlag: Gill Books
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2018
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 951 KB
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Michael Moynihan is a journalist with the Irish Examiner. He has also written for RTÉ, Today FM, The Observer and the Washington Post. He was born and raised in Cork, where he lives with his wife and two children. He is the author of several successful books and has twice been shortlisted for Sports Book of the Year.
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