Business in Ireland is booming

Dublin, 27 November 1914 - Research conducted by The Irish Independent indicates that large firms and industries all across Ireland are experiencing a boom in business. Trade in Ireland is now higher than in the corresponding period for last year and all of the four principal Irish railway companies show greatly increased traffic.

Thompson’s Motor Car Company are one example of a thriving business and their spokesman said today: ‘We have almost more than can do to deal with the great rush of business and are working overtime. We had to extend our premises more than twice the former size within the past two months. Irish industries have appreciated and not depreciated since the war.’

Many of those interviewed during the course of the research pointed to Ireland's dependence on agriculture, which has received a boost from the war, in comparison to England's urban industrial core which has been dislocated, as the impetus for the current situation.

[Editor's note: This is an article from Century Ireland, a fortnightly online newspaper, written from the perspective of a journalist 100 years ago, based on news reports of the time.]