The Changing Faces of Ireland

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Darmody, Merike (Editor), Tyrrell, Naomi (Editor), Song, Steve (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Rotterdam : SensePublishers, 2011.
• Subjects: Education.; Educational sociology.; Education and sociology.; Sociology, Educational.; Sociology of Education.

Before the economic boom of the 1990s, Ireland was known as a nation of emigrants. The past fifteen years, however, have seen the transformation of Ireland from a country of net emigration to one of net immigration, on a scale and at a pace unprecedented in comparative context. As a result, Irish so...