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Howth Free Press is an independent publisher based in Howth, Co. Dublin, publishing books, pamphlets and studies of national, local, historical and cultural interest.
A Very Political Project
Charles Haughey, Social Partnership, and Ireland’s 1990s Economic Transformation
By Dr Philip O’Connor
Charles Haughey is grudgingly credited today with some achievements, but his overall strategy to transform the Irish economy and how it succeeded remain little known. This deeply researched, compelling and lively book aims to rectify this.
By the 1990s, an almost entirely new economy had been created, populated by new industries and social institutions and based on high-tech exporting industries, a financial services framework, an industry/research/education nexus and a firm EU integration orientation. This “Irish Model” with its dual goal... >>> more
The Christian Druids
On the Filid or Philosopher Poets of Ireland
By John Minahane
The Christian Druids explores how Ireland’s pre-Christian poet-philosophers absorbed and reshaped Christianity, creating a distinctive literary culture in the Irish language. Drawing on poetry, prophecy, satire, heroic tales, riddles and philosophical fragments, John Minahane argues that Ireland’s learned poets made Christianity their own without surrendering the traditions that came before it. >>> more
About The Press
Howth Free Press was founded in 2008, published several successful titles, and has now been revived with a new programme of books and reprints.
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