Voices
Each year, I take advantage of the break to get down off my soapbox and discuss some recent academic research I’ve been involved in. For example, two years ago, I wrote about how the introduction of the rail network in Ireland in the second half of the 19th century changed its economic geography, in ways still relevant today. In 2021, it was a piece on the largely forgotten but transformational Labourers Acts, a landmark intervention in housing not just in Ireland but globally – and one that shaped the spread of Ireland’s population for decades to come. This year’s digression…
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