bined with the re-emergence of the land question. Ireland's trading position is still heavily dependent on agriculture and the fishing industry. This fact alone has sharpened the economic contradictions considerably The bitter struggle between British and Icelandic capital over fishing rights has left Ireland a non-starter. The main concern of successive Irish governments has been with getting a piece of the action - any piece, however small. Serious competition is just not possible.
agriculture in Ireland's trading position has put a great premium on the availability of farming land. This, combined with the relative cheapness of labour there, has meant that new industrial Diant nas tenoco to de estabunce or the West Coast and in the South West.
families have often held the same plot Tor generations, nave been Torcibiy dispossessed.
This has also meant further blows to traditional Irish culture and a further decline in the old language - for all the fuss made about it at Fianna Fail conventions. OLD FORMULA re-emergence in their starkest possible form of the old fundamental contradictions of the Irish economy, split Fianna Fail down the middle and led to its replacement bv the present Fine represents a return to the old policies of with the British abroad - with the social democrats signed on to do the excuse making.
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