Dublin Industry at EEC Accession: The Leading Firms and Factories
Dublin City Library and Archive 139 - 144 Pearse Street, Dublin 2, Dublin, IrelandProfessor Frank Barry will reveal that Dublin was still an industrial city when Ireland joined the European Economic Community in 1973 with almost half of the largest manufacturing establishments in the state. The Guinness brewery at St James’s Gate employed 3,500. Jacob’s biscuit factory employed around 1,500 and was predominantly female. Twenty-five or so of...