Book description
In the past fifteen years, Ireland has gone from being one of the
poorest countries in the EU to one of the richest in the world. Of all
the factors in this extraordinary transformation, none has been more
prominent than the astonishing boom in construction. In The
Builders, Frank McDonald and Kathy Sheridan tell the stories of
these men and of the changes - physical and psychological - they have
brought about. The story of Ireland's property developers has been the
great untold story of the boom - until now.
'Essential reading' Sunday Business Post
Frank McDonald is Environment Editor of the
Irish Times
and author of books including
The Destruction of Dublin
and
The Construction of Dublin
. Kathy Sheridan is an
Irish Times
staff journalist.
