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Ciarán Casey @ciaranmcasey.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

He spends a full chapter talking about a seal cull and the poor wife gets this

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Ciarán Casey @ciaranmcasey.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

'The Islandman' by Tomás O'Crohan. The space allocations are leaving me reeling

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Ciarán Casey @ciaranmcasey.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Ok it's got good. Fascinated by this- 44% of secondary students cycled to school! (Road deaths were far worse and with a tiny fraction of the cars)

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Ciarán Casey @ciaranmcasey.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

This has a good claim to be the most significant report in the history of the state

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Ciarán Casey @ciaranmcasey.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Last week we'd a seminar from Paul De Grauwe. I found him invaluable when thinking about the euro for my Department of Finance book. He anticipated the risks better than anyone, warning about potential housing booms and banking crises in 1998. A colleague rightly described his seminar as masterful

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Ciarán Casey @ciaranmcasey.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

I'm only properly appreciating the magic of antibiotics

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Ciarán Casey @ciaranmcasey.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

From @jburnmurdoch.ft.com back in July. Housing is a problem in a lot of places but here it's exceptionally bad.

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Ciarán Casey @ciaranmcasey.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

The Commission on Emigration (1954) bemoaning the lot of young Irish adults.

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Ciarán Casey @ciaranmcasey.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

From the Commission on Emigration (1954). It should be the county motto tbh

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Ciarán Casey @ciaranmcasey.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

This year has been 40% wetter than the long term average in Dublin. Have we managed to combine the worst policies of both the political right and left into one cunning package?

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Ciarán Casey @ciaranmcasey.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

And data centres, obviously? Even by Irish standards, a gung-ho data centre policy while refusing to invest properly in water infrastructure is bananas

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Ciarán Casey @ciaranmcasey.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

So much of the dicussion on mid-century Irish health metrics focuses on policy debates and the church. Any comparative analysis suggests it was almost all about medicine

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Ciarán Casey @ciaranmcasey.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

You'd never guess who the neutral country was from this

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Ciarán Casey @ciaranmcasey.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

The first appearance of this font which I feel they used for the next fifty years

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Ciarán Casey @ciaranmcasey.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

It's really fascinating in fairness. This is a pretty contemporary source but the most compelling I've found. It's a massive achievement in fairness and so rarely commented on

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Ciarán Casey @ciaranmcasey.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

One of the weirdest findings on this material wellbeing project is the all-cause death rates in the UK fell sharply during WW2 but not in Ireland. The best explanation I've seen is food price controls but if anyone has a competing explanation please shout

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Ciarán Casey @ciaranmcasey.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

Deep in a statistical abstract from 1948. I'm actually amazed only 1% of @rte.ie broadcasting time was religious services

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Ciarán Casey @ciaranmcasey.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

An impressive breakout from Dundrum mental aylum in 1926

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Ciarán Casey @ciaranmcasey.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

This comes back to me every time I see the book now

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Ciarán Casey @ciaranmcasey.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

I'm writing a book on material wellbeing since independence and quite chuffed with these two epigraphs from Cumann na nGaedheal for the opening chapter

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Ciarán Casey @ciaranmcasey.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

Young people in the 1940s wasting their money instead of saving for a house

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Ciarán Casey @ciaranmcasey.bsky.social · 07/12/2025

Future civilisations will marvel at this image. Sages will debate its meaning

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Ciarán Casey @ciaranmcasey.bsky.social · 27/11/2025

Oh and the only girls to do Greek and 'Physics and Chemistry' for the leaving

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Ciarán Casey @ciaranmcasey.bsky.social · 27/11/2025

Props to the sole boys to do music and Spanish for the Inter Cert in 1942 (both passed)

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Ciarán Casey @ciaranmcasey.bsky.social · 27/11/2025

In his essay on making tea he says the pot should be brought to the kettle rather than vice versa. Good to see he's following his own rules here

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Ciarán Casey @ciaranmcasey.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

It shouldn't need reiteration but most of the kids who ended up in industrial schools were just guilty of being poor.

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Ciarán Casey @ciaranmcasey.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

I'm going through the government reports for the past century and the introduction of the school medical service is one of the most interesting things. The public health problems were jaw-dropping, even after years of operation. Here's the results from the inspections in Dublin, 1936-7

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Ciarán Casey @ciaranmcasey.bsky.social · 27/08/2025

Back when official reports were entitled using the I'd Do Anything for Love (But I Won't Do That)' format. Catchy stuff

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Ciarán Casey @ciaranmcasey.bsky.social · 21/08/2025

Currently copying and pasting this gem into a lecture on inflation

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Ciarán Casey @ciaranmcasey.bsky.social · 20/08/2025

From the first Hospitals Commission report in 1936:

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Ciarán Casey @ciaranmcasey.bsky.social · 05/08/2025

From an inspector of boarded out (foster) children in 1932. Saying the quiet part loud

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Ciarán Casey @ciaranmcasey.bsky.social · 07/07/2025

If aliens come there's a good chance it won't be to meet us

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Ciarán Casey @ciaranmcasey.bsky.social · 04/07/2025

People aren't sufficiently concerned about grade inflation in the 1920s and 1930s. Those kids were wasters

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Ciarán Casey @ciaranmcasey.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

Interesting! In 1930 there were about 20 million train journeys taken in Ireland, compared to 50 million last year.

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Ciarán Casey @ciaranmcasey.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

The marriage rate in 2024 was 3.8 per thousand population. Interestingly, it's not dramatically lower than a century ago

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Ciarán Casey @ciaranmcasey.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

Births weren't officially registered in Ireland until 1864 and then the census returns were burnt in the Four Courts, making it really hard for people in the 1920s/30s to prove their ages to get a pension. The acceptable alternative documentation included dated birthday cards

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Ciarán Casey @ciaranmcasey.bsky.social · 29/05/2025

The memoirs are starting to pile up, with more on the way. If anyone has any recommendations for Ireland, 1922 to 1945, please send them on

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Ciarán Casey @ciaranmcasey.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

Irish hospitals were still buying enough leeches in 1925 to make them a major expenses item

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Ciarán Casey @ciaranmcasey.bsky.social · 19/05/2025

Some helpful suggestions to Primary Schools at the birth of the state.

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Ciarán Casey @ciaranmcasey.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

The plan for the electrification of the Free State by Siemens-Schuckert in 1925

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Ciarán Casey @ciaranmcasey.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

An American journalist commenting on Irish accents in 1925

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Ciarán Casey @ciaranmcasey.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

And absolutely guaranteed some moan will tell me in July that we've had no summer

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Ciarán Casey @ciaranmcasey.bsky.social · 20/12/2024

I hadn't looked at Irish GNI* per capita in ages until a student graphed it in an assignment. The narrative that Ireland is performing really well is such a myth. We're only up 9% in the seventeen years since 2006. It explains a lot of the gap between expectations and reality for me

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