Ó Gráda, CormacCormacÓ GrádaO'Rourke, Kevin H.Kevin H.O'Rourke2010-05-072010-05-071993-10199327http://hdl.handle.net/10197/1948The paper reviews the economic performance of the Republic of Ireland since 1945. Its focus is comparative; Ireland's record is assessed against the evidence in OECD and Penn Mark V data sets for a 'convergence club' of European economies, and is found wanting. The comparison confirms that the 1950s were a particularly bleak decade for Ireland but, more surprisingly, Ireland also performed less well than predicted by convergence criteria in both 1960-1973 and 1973-1988. The paper then assesses a range of explanations for this poor performance.1666855 bytesapplication/pdfenEconomic growthConvergenceIrelandIreland--Economic conditions--20th centuryIreland--Economic policyConvergence (Economics)--IrelandN10N14O47O52Working Paperhttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/1.0/