Denis O'Hearn is Reader in Sociology at Queens University, Belfast and Chair of the West Belfast Economic Forum

• 1. Global Power and Local Economic Change2. Incorporation and Before3. The First Cycle of Industrial Transformation: Wool to Linen4. Cotton to Linen: The Second Cycle5. The Third Cycle: Import-substitution to Export-oriented Industrialisation6. The Transformed Industry: Foreign Investment7. Riding the New Economy: From Green Donkey to Celtic Tiger8. Comparing cycles of peripheral economic change

Denis O'Hearn is Reader in Sociology at Queens University, Belfast and Chair of the West Belfast Economic Forum

• 1. Global Power and Local Economic Change2. Incorporation and Before3. The First Cycle of Industrial Transformation: Wool to Linen4. Cotton to Linen: The Second Cycle5. The Third Cycle: Import-substitution to Export-oriented Industrialisation6. The Transformed Industry: Foreign Investment7. Riding the New Economy: From Green Donkey to Celtic Tiger8. Comparing cycles of peripheral economic change

Denis O'Hearn is Reader in Sociology at Queens University, Belfast and Chair of the West Belfast Economic Forum

• 1. Global Power and Local Economic Change2. Incorporation and Before3. The First Cycle of Industrial Transformation: Wool to Linen4. Cotton to Linen: The Second Cycle5. The Third Cycle: Import-substitution to Export-oriented Industrialisation6. The Transformed Industry: Foreign Investment7. Riding the New Economy: From Green Donkey to Celtic Tiger8. Comparing cycles of peripheral economic change