2i6 Ireland

event of incalculable consequences for both Ireland and
America.1348 The demographic and economic features of
modem Ireland-or perhaps those which really modern
Ireland is at last beginning to alter - emerged clearly in the
1850'$.

Ireland since independence has somehow lost a good deal
of interest; and historians' interest seems to have declined as
well. McCracken does a good job analysing the parliament of
the Irish Republic,1349 and Harkness thumps a lot of tubs
in his determination to prove that the new Free State was
mainly responsible for the events which turned the old empire
into the new (and even shorter-lived) commonwealth.1350
But it seems more appropriate and more just to end with a
reference to one of Ireland's major contributions to universal
culture - the brewing of a unique beer. Here Lynch and
Vaizey have produced a piece of business history in which
personal experience finds agreeable reflection.1351

1348 S, H, Cousens, 'Emigration and demographic change in Ireland,
1851-1861*, EcHR* 14 (1960-1), 375-88.- Arnold Schrier,
Ireland and the American Emigration, 1850 -1900, Minneapolis: U of
Minnesota P: 1958. Pp. xi, 210. Rev: EHR 75, 364^

1349 J, L. McCracken, Representative Government in Ireland: a study of
Ddil timnn, 1919-1948, L: OUP: 1958. Pp. ix, 229* Rev: EHR

74> 753-
3350 D. W, Harkness, The Restless Dominion; the Irish Free State and the

British Commonwealth of Nations, 1921 -1931. L: Macmillan: 1969,

Pp. xviii, 312.
1351 Patrick Lynch and John Vaizey, Gwmess Brewery in the Irish

Economy, 1759-1876, CUP: 1960. Pp. viii, 274.