This tiny country of just 4.5 million people had rebranded itself the “Celtic Tiger” in the 1990s, adopting a corporate tax rate of just 12.5 percent that attracted a surge of business investment from the United States and elsewhere. ..…
The roots of the crisis go back to the success story of the Celtic Tiger itself. . When U.S. investment in manufacturing began to decline after 2001, the Celtic Tiger was sustained by a huge property boom. ..…
When Irish immigrants began to arrive in the United States in large numbers from the 1850s onwards, they were considered nonwhite because they were perceived to be of Celtic rather than Anglo Saxon background. ..…
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