Crisis atlas / IRL

Ireland

12 distinct crisis events in 2 episodes, 2007–2021, from the union of five primary chronologies.

Debt profile: government debt trajectory and crisis-start levels →

Banking crises

Currency crises

Sovereign debt crises

Crisis events

2007–2021

Span

Crisis timeline

Every distinct (year, type) event, most recent first, with the chronologies flagging it. Start-year sources (GMD, JST) do not mark continuation years, so long episodes show lower agreement after their first year.

2021
Bankingesrb1 source
2020
Bankingesrb1 source
2016
Bankingrr1 source
2015
Bankingrr1 source
2014
Bankingrr1 source
2013
Bankingesrb, rr2 sources
2012
Bankingesrb, laeven_valencia, rr3 sources
2011
Bankingesrb, laeven_valencia, rr3 sources
2010
Bankingesrb, laeven_valencia, rr3 sources
2009
Bankingesrb, laeven_valencia, rr3 sources
2008
Bankingesrb, jst, laeven_valencia, rr4 sources
2007
Bankinggmd, rr2 sources

Source: Global Macro Database 2026_06 (Müller, Xu, Lehbib & Chen 2025) | Jordà-Schularick-Taylor Macrohistory R6 | Laeven & Valencia (2020) | Reinhart-Rogoff via HBS BFFS | ECB/ESRB Financial Crises Database Methodology

Macro context around each episode

Inflation, central-bank policy rate, and government debt in a window of five years either side of each crisis episode (consecutive crisis years bridged across gaps of up to two years). Crisis years shaded.

2007–2016

BankingFiscal cost 37.6% of GDP, output loss 107.7% of GDP (Laeven-Valencia 2026)

Inflation (% y/y)

Policy rate (%)

Govt debt (% of GDP)

2020–2021

Banking

Inflation (% y/y)

Policy rate (%)

Govt debt (% of GDP)

Source: Global Macro Database 2026_06 (Müller, Xu, Lehbib & Chen 2025) Inflation is % year over year; policy rate is the central-bank rate in %; government debt is % of GDP. Methodology