Workshop on Economic Policy in Ireland and Scotland

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This workshop is intended to begin a dialogue between Ireland and Scotland (and perhaps Wales and Northern Ireland) over economic issues of joint interest. This first workshop is being held in Edinburgh, Scotland and is being organised by David Bell (Stirling Management School) and Liam Delaney (Stirling Management School and University College, Dublin) and Ray Perman (David Hume Institute). The papers from the workshop will be published by the David Hume Institute. The event is sponsored by Fiscal Affairs Scotland. Registration is free but spaces are limited so please register here in advance.
Speakers include:
Anne Nolan (ESRI, Dublin)
David Bell (University of Stirling)
David Eiser (University of Strathclyde)
Elaine Douglas (University of Stirling)
Frank Barry (Trinity College, Dublin)
John Cullinan (National University of Ireland Galway)
John Mclaren (Fiscal Affairs Scotland)
Kirsty Hughes (University of Edinburgh)
Liam Delaney (University of Stirling and University College Dublin)
Lucy Blackburn (Adventures in Evidence)
Muiris Maccarthaigh (Queen’s University Belfast)
Nicola McEwen (University of Edinburgh)
Paul Cairney (University of Stirling)
Ed Poole(University of Cardiff)

A full programme for the day will appear on this site soon!

You might be interested in a talk to be given by Hussein Kassim (UEA) on  ‘Brexit: destination still unknown?’ on Thursday 16 Feb, 9:30-11:00, in UCD Newman G316. Tea and will be coffee available from 9:00.
Information about getting to UCD is here, and information about parking on campus is here. All welcome.Please RSVP to Dara.Gannon@ucd.ie by 12:00 on Tuesday 14 February. This seminar is jointly organized by UCD School of Politics and International Relations, UCD College of Social Sciences and Law, and UCD Geary Institute for Public Policy.

The report of the Economic Statistics Review Group, and response of the CSO, are available here. There is lots of detail in both that goes beyond the publication of a modified aggregate measure, GNI*.

Battista Severgnini (Copenhagen Business School) and I are currently working on a project on the Irish movement of Independence (1913-1921). The project investigates the determinants of joining the rebellion movement. In particular, we explore whether the famine played a role in the probability of joining rebellion activities. Controlling for the level of economic development and other potential concurring factors, we test the role of the great Irish famine as an exceptional legacy of rebellion during the movement of independence. The working paper is available here: The Deep Roots of Rebellion: Evidence from the Irish Revolution.

As part of our project, we have matched the list of Rebels (Easter Rising, War of Independence) from the Military Archives with the 1911 Irish Census. At the moment, the matching rate is 17% and we would like to improve on this. We are currently engaging in crowd-sourcing and we would be delighted if you could help us with this task. If a member of your family took part in the Irish movement of independence (Easter Rising, War of Independence), please contact us (irishrevolutionproject@gmail.com). We will make sure to add them to our data set. You can also visit our website for more information: https://irishrevolutionproject.wordpress.com/

Thank you for your help in constructing our data set!