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Church, State and Social Science in Ireland: Knowledge Institutions and the Rebalancing of Power, 1937-73

Church, State and Social Science in Ireland: Knowledge Institutions and the Rebalancing of Power, 1937-73

Murray, Peter
Feeney, Maria

Paperback

General Political ScienceGeneral Sociology

ISBN10: 1526121727
ISBN13: 9781526121721
Publisher: Manchester Univ Pr
Published: Dec 7 2018
Pages: 272
Weight: 1.45
Height: 0.90 Width: 6.10 Depth: 9.10
Language: English
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.

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