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The Lemass YearsTRANSCRIPT
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Economy in the 1950s
• Protectionism – imposing tariffs on imports• Irish industry was inefficient• Imports cost more than exports – trade
defecit• Unemployment increased• 50,000 people emigrated every year during
1950s
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The Lemass Years1959-66
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• Donough O’Malley • Jack Lynch
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The First Programme for Economic Expansion
Aim: To attract foreign industry into Ireland
How?• By offering them grants to set up here• No tax on profits• Providing the facilities needed by building
industrial estates• To give grants to Irish firms
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Results – 1960s boom
• Many American, Japanese and British industries came to Ireland.
• Unemployment increased• Emigration decreased• The population increased for the first time
since the Famine
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Anglo-Irish Free Trade Agreement, 1965
• Removed all tariffs on Irish industrial exports• Gradually removed tariffs on British imports
Result:Between 1960-68 over 600 firms set up in
Iteland
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Free Education
Donough O’Malley• Free secondary education
for all children• Free school transport for all
second level pupils
Result:A well- educated workforce to fill the new jobs provided by foreign companies
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North-South Relations
• Lemass visited O’Neill in Belfast
• Co-operation was encouraged in tourism and agriculture
• O’Neill returned the gesture by visiting Lemass in Dublin
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RTÉ
• RTÉ first broadcast on 31 December 1961
• Change in attitude of society – exposure to British and American cultures
• Social issues were debated for the first time on The Late Late Show
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The Catholic Church• In the early 1960s the
Catholic Church had a powerful influence over Irish society
Vatican Council 1958:• The debate within the
Church encouraged ordinary Catholics to question the teachings of the church
Pope John XXIII