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Building reputations

Architecture and the artisan, 1750–1830

By: Conor Lucey

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Building reputations

Architecture and the artisan, 1750–1830

By: Conor Lucey

Taking a cue from revisionist scholarship on early modern vernacular architectures and their relationship to the classical canon, this book rehabilitates the reputations of a representative if misunderstood building typology – the eighteenth-century brick terraced house – and the artisan communities of bricklayers, carpenters and plasterers responsible for its design and construction. Opening with a cultural history of the building tradesman in terms of his reception within contemporary architectural discourse, chapters consider the design, decoration and marketing of the town house in the principal cities of the eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century British Atlantic world. The book is essential reading for students and scholars of the history of architectural design and interior decoration specifically, and of eighteenth-century society and culture generally.

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409

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Manchester University Press

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152611996X

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9781526119964

Sins of the Father

Tracing the Decisions that Shaped the Irish Economy

By: Conor McCabe

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Sins of the Father

Tracing the Decisions that Shaped the Irish Economy

By: Conor McCabe

The questions surrounding how the Irish economy was brought to the brink – who was to blame, and who should pay for these mistakes – have been rightly debated at length. But beyond this very legitimate exercise, there are deeper questions that need to be answered. These questions relate to why we made the decisions we did, not just in the last 10 years, but over the last 80. How did certain industries become prominent at the expense of others, banking as opposed to fisheries, international markets as opposed to indigenous industry and job creation? Are our problems structural in nature, and most importantly, what do we need to know to make sure that this crisis does not happen again? These are the questions set by this book. It will look at the development of the Irish economy over the past eight decades, and will argue that the 2008 financial crisis, up to and including the IMF bailout of 2010 and the subsequent change of government, cannot be explained simply by the moral failings of those in banking or property development alone. The problems are deeper, more intricate, and more dangerous if we remain unaware of them, but also potentially avoidable in the future if we break the cycle.

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275

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The History Press

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1845887190

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9781845887193

Competition Law in Times of Crisis

Case Studies of the Airline Sector and the Irish Beef Industry

By: Conor Talbot

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Competition Law in Times of Crisis

Case Studies of the Airline Sector and the Irish Beef Industry

By: Conor Talbot

This book examines the role and utility of competition law within the EU’s legislative and regulatory dialogue, using its response to crisis conditions as a test of its aims and abilities. As such, its main conclusion is that competition policy acts as a forum for debate as to the direction of the European integration project, while competition law can serve as a tool for aiding in the implementation of broader policy objectives. The analysis here explores the role of the general economic context in the application of competition law, the existence of identifiable baselines applicable in crisis conditions, the ability and role of national competition authorities in applying competition law, and the ways in which the European Commission’s overarching policy goals can influence the application of competition law. The decision to take an empirical approach to this research project stems from a conviction that an investigation into the real world situations faced by firms and consumers should underpin the evaluation of the applicable legal rules. Over the past number of years, the Commission has exerted more and more influence over the development of the regional and global airline industry, and this book identifies the emergence of an apparent overarching aim on the part of the Commission to create a market with a handful of ultra-competitive airlines with international reach serviced by an array of smaller feeder airlines on a regional basis. The study of Irish beef processing, on the other hand, identifies a high level of government involvement in providing the strategic thinking behind a crisis cartel scheme, and then demonstrates how the economic context exerted considerably more pressure on the government and the national court than on the competition authorities involved.

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238

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Cambridge Scholars Publishing

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1527523152

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9781527523159

The Stapleton Collection

Designs for the Irish Neoclassical Interior

By: Conor Lucey,Michael Stapleton

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The Stapleton Collection

Designs for the Irish Neoclassical Interior

By: Conor Lucey,Michael Stapleton

Conor Lucey's study opens publishes for the first time the remarkable Stapleton Collection of designs for the interiors of Georgian Dublin houses. The austere facades of houses in, for example, North Great George'sStreet masked the opulent stucco work which graced the interiors. Michael Stapleton was the leading designer of stucco work in the last decades of the eighteenth century and the drawings from his busy practice are preservedin the National Library.

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0955024625

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9780955024627

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Building reputations

Building reputations

Sins of the Father

Sins of the Father

Competition Law in Times of Crisis

Competition Law in Times of Crisis

The Stapleton Collection

The Stapleton Collection

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