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Spatial Justice and the Irish Crisis

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Inequality and injustice have distinctively geographical aspects in modern Ireland. ''Spatial justice and the Irish Crisis'', describes and explains the socially, economically, and geographically differentiated outcomes of one of the most far-reaching economic calamities experienced by any developed country in the past century.
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David M eredith and
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Danny Do rling
David H arvey
John Ag new
Rory Hearne
Rob Kitch in
Cian O'Callagh an
Marie Mahon
Anna R. Davies
David M eredith
Jon Paul Faulkn er
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Eileen Hum phreys
Ronan Foley
Adrian Kavanagh
Mary Gilmarti n
Gerry Kearns
David M eredith
John M orrissey
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Inequality and injustice
have distinctively
geographical aspects in
modern Ireland. Spatial
Justice and the Irish
Crisis describes and
explains the socially,
economically and
geographically
differentiated outcomes
of one of the most far-
reaching economic
calamities experienced by
any developed country in
the past century.
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