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Ireland. Ministry of Economic Affairs
A government department rather than an individual writer, this author is linked to a rare snapshot of Ireland's early 1920s economy. Its surviving publication captures how officials tried to measure everyday living costs during a time of major political change.
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Report on the Cost of Living in Ireland, June 1922
by Ireland. Ministry of Economic Affairs
About the author
Ireland. Ministry of Economic Affairs is listed as the corporate author of Report on the Cost of Living in Ireland, June 1922, a public document published in Dublin in 1922. Library and book records consistently identify the ministry as the authoring body rather than naming a single person.
The report itself explains that the Provisional Government appointed a committee on 10 June 1922, bringing together representatives from the ministries of Agriculture, Finance, Economic Affairs, and Labour. Their job was to estimate how much the cost of maintaining a working family's standard of living in Ireland had changed since July 1914.
Because this is a government body and not a personal author, little biographical information exists in the usual sense. What survives is its role in producing an official economic report from a formative moment in Irish state history, making the ministry notable mainly through that publication.