It’s Not Academic
Sunday, August 24th, 2008The Corporate Takeover of Ireland, by UCD’s Kieran Allen, was published in 2007 by the Irish Academic Press, where he is joined by such as Bryan Fanning (also of UCD) and Diarmaid Ferriter. Heavyweights, in other words. A serious business. So why is the book so badly marred by typos and other errors?
“complimentary” where “complementary” was obviously meant (179).
“DPP” (196) not explained and not included in the list of abbreviations at the start of the book. The extra attentive reader finds a reference to the Director of Public Prosecutions only on page 198.
“€25 per cent” (170), whatever that is.
“resources that could be going into tackling MRSA or the wider A&E crisis is used…” (163)
“the Dutch sent back fifty-nine containers of Irish waste that had been discovered at Rotherham” (206) or perhaps discovered in Rotterdam?
“In the six-year period between 1997 and 2000″ (210)
There are so many mistakes (there seems to be a digit missing from Austria’s [...]
