Culture and Leadership Across the World

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Leadership and Culture in the Republic of Ireland

Mary A. Keating Gillian S. MartinSchool of Business Studies and Department of Germanic Studies,University of Dublin, Trinity College, Ireland

The contemporary Irish writer, Seamus Deane, has interpreted W. B. Yeats's observation that “Ireland belonged to Asia before the Battle of the Boyne” (cited in Deane, 1984, p. 90) as underlining Ireland's membership of an old and worldwide culture.¹ The island of Ireland is situated to the extreme northwest of Europe and is separated from Britain, its closest neighbor, by the Irish Sea. Celts, Vikings, Normans, and the English have inhabited Ireland ...