Category: Economics

I couldn’t find anything online to directly convert old Irish prices to current values. So I wrote some code to estimate e.g. £100 in 1950 in 2012 prices. It’s here: https://hargaden.com/enda/inflation/calculator.html

If emigration had been included in the Olympics when they were first introduced, Ireland would be a great sporting nation. Nonetheless the scale of the emigration is sometimes slightly exaggerated. I have seen it stated…