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CONTESTING HISTORY OPPOSING VOICES

CONTESTING HISTORY OPPOSING VOICES. 14: Lemass: Economic Liberator or Defender of the Status Quo?. Lemass: Economic Liberator or Defender of the Status Quo?. 1948: Feb: General election – first inter-party government formed under John A. Costello

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CONTESTING HISTORY OPPOSING VOICES

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  1. CONTESTINGHISTORYOPPOSINGVOICES 14: Lemass: Economic Liberator or Defender of the Status Quo?

  2. Lemass: Economic Liberator or Defender of the Status Quo? • 1948: Feb: General election – first inter-party government formed under John A. Costello • 1948: Dec.: Republic of Ireland Act passed by the Dáil • 1949: April: Ireland became a Republic & left the commonwealth • 1950: foundation of the Industrial Development Authority (IDA) • 1951: May: General election - Fianna Fail victory • 1952: Establishment of Bord Fáilte • 1954: General election – second inter-party government formed • 1955: Republic admitted to the United Nations

  3. Lemass: Economic Liberator or Defender of the Status Quo? • 1956: T. K. Whitaker appointed as Secretary to the Department of Finance • 1957: General election – FF returned to power • 1958: May: first draft of Whitaker’s Economic Development presented to the government • 1958: July: Industrial Development (Encouragement of External Investment) Act passed • 1958: Nov.: Programme for Economic Expansion presented to the Dáil • 1959: June: De Valera elected President • 1959: June: Seán Lemass succeeded as Taoiseach • 1961: Oct.: General election – FF victory • 1961: Dec.: RTE began transmissions

  4. Lemass: Economic Liberator or Defender of the Status Quo? • 1963: March: Terence O’Neill appointed prime minister of Northern Ireland • 1963: June: John F Kennedy visited Ireland • 1963: Aug.: Publication of the Second Programme for Economic Expansion • 1965: Jan.: Lemass and O’Neill met in Stormont • 1965: Feb.: Lemass and O’Neill met in Dublin • 1965: April: General election – FF victory • 1965: Dec.: Anglo-Irish Free Trade Agreement signed by Lemass and Harold Wilson • 1966: Nov.: Lemass resigned and was replaced by Jack Lynch as Taoiseach

  5. Lemass: Economic Liberator or Defender of the Status Quo? • Further Reading: • Bew, Paul, & Patterson, Henry, Seán Lemass and the Making of Modern Ireland, 1945-1969 (1982). • Farrell, Brian, Seán Lemass (1983). • Murphy, Gary,& Girvin, Brian (eds), The Lemass Era: Politics and Society in the Ireland of Sean Lemass (2005). • Savage, R., Seán Lemass (1999).

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