GrowthEconomic growth corrupts a society in the way a cancer destroys the human body on which it feeds. Growth is simply an increase in the size of the monetarized part of the social arrangements by which we live, relate and support each other. All too often, however, this increase is at the expense of our personal relationships or of natural resources. Elizabeth Cullens lead essay in this collection shows that recent rapid economic growth in Ireland has

a place and a welter of emotions through vividly remembered scenes

where the river Liffey begins its last descent out to sea

others disinterred from rare and learned periodicals: Together they form a scholarly and diverting mosaic of political and social life in Ireland over the past half-millennium

but that is sufficient – we are all gay as larks

and a prodigal dissenter

and contribution to

‘As I shall embark in a business

I thought of pounding fetlocks

Invaluable archival images of

and destined for the seminary

the observance of time

Twenty-four people die inside the beachfront building when it's razed 'flatter than a winter bayou'