Contested Ruralities: Housing in the Irish countryside

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The countryside has undergone major transformations over recent decades as a result 
\nof global economic restructuring, state intervention in agriculture, and changing 
\ndemographies. These changes are often contested and the source of conflict and 
\ntensions, which in Ireland have manifested in the debate on living in the countryside. 
\nThe Irish rural housing debate is an illustration of wider rural change in a country with a 
\nstrong tradition of farming on small to medium sized holdings, each owner-occupied. In 
\naddition, the media popularisation of the debate, rather than establishing the facts of 
\nrural housing, has rested In anecdote and emphasised the emotive. The housing 
\ndebate strongly contests issues, such as who has the right to live in the countryside, 
\nhow traditional settlement patterns can be sustained into the future - and indeed, what 
\nthese traditional patterns are to begin with - and what interventions should b

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