Martin Birrane built a career in business at a period when the rules of commerce were themselves changing.
The record lists Martin Birrane as Irish businessman (1935–2018).
Martin Birrane was born at Ballina in 1935. His recorded nationality is Ireland.
Post-war business was mass-market and increasingly multinational, managed by professionals rather than owners.
He worked as entrepreneur and racing driver.
Enterprises outlive their founders or they do not, and that is the whole test.
That the business was built from Ireland shaped it: capital, regulation and market size differ by country, and they decide what is even attemptable.
Martin Birrane died in 2018, aged 83. What remains is the enterprise and its consequences, which is the only durable measure of a commercial life.
