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Article: The modernization of Ireland: gains and losses.
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- Contemporary Review
- Article date:
- October 1, 2002
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FREQUENTLY termed the 'Celtic Tiger' for its flourishing economy, Ireland's growth has been spectacular over the past decade and so swift and dynamic that it has essentially leaped from an agriculture to an information technology focused economy, bypassing in the process the industrial revolution. Its recent prosperity is primarily based on high-tech manufacture fuelled by the plants of numerous electronics and software mammoths such as Intel, Digital Sun Microsystems, Dell, Motorola, Oracle, Microsoft and pharmaceutical giants such as Pfizer and Johnson and Johnson. These companies, largely American, were attracted to Ireland by generous government incentives, proximity ...