Table 1 shows the growth rates of output volume, population and employment in Ireland over various periods since 1926. I take the last period, 1993-2000, as the Celtic Tiger phase. In 1993, total employment was just back to the 1980 level after the large fall in the first half of the 1980s during the worldwide recession following the second oil crisis, and the 1993 level was still 7 percent bel...

The anti-malarial work here reported upon was initiated in 1926 under the auspices of Messrs. Duncan Brothers of Calcutta, the agents for three of the tea gardens in the group of which I was in medical charge. Later on, other companies decided to adopt the same measures, so that in the end the estates of the Amo, Deundi, Chandpore, Teliapara, Luskerpore, and the Imperial Tea Companies were incl...