Download or read book How Ireland Voted 2011 written by M. Gallagher and published by Springer. This book was released on 2011-10-18 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The collapse of the Irish 'Celtic Tiger' economy, in the wake of a banking disaster, provoked a joint EU/IMF rescue plan in late 2010. The election that followed saw Europe's most successful ever party lose more than half of its vote and almost three quarters of its seats. This book provides the definitive analysis of an electoral earthquake.