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16 January 2008
repeat 20 January
WEALTHY IRISH AND SANDWICHES The Republic of Ireland has experienced enormous change since 1970, change which has brought an almost completely unexpected wave of prosperity.
Ireland used to be a poor country but according to the Bank of Ireland there are now 30,000 Euro millionaires – that in a population of only 5 million.
This week Laurie explores how the culture of Ireland has been affected by this change of fortunes and will be asking what it did in order to let the good times roll in.
The historian Roy Foster has said that after centuries of misfortune, the Irish finally got lucky. He, along with the Financial Times Ireland Correspondent, John Murray Brown discuss the wealth of the Irish.
Additional information: Roy Foster
Roy is Carroll Professor of Irish History at Hertford College, Oxford. He was born in Waterford, Ireland and was educated in Ireland and the United States. Roy has had numerous research grants and sits on various editorial boards for Irish Studies journals. He is a fellow of the Royal Historical Society, the British Academy and the Royal Society of Literature.
Luck & The Irish: A brief History of Change 1970-2000 Publisher: Allen Lane
ISBN - 10: 0713997834
ISBN – 13: 978 – 0713997835
John Murray Brown
John is Ireland correspondent for the Financial Times. His article is called Lucre of the Irish and is published in the January 2008 edition of Prospect Magazine.
Tom Jaine
Tom Jaine is Editor of Prospect Books and the Oxford Companion to Food. He is also author of Making Bread At Home.
Making Bread at Home Publisher: Weidenfeld & Nicolson
ISBN - 10: 0297843915
ISBN – 13: 978 - 0297843917
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