Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) 443, 470 Common Fisheries Policy (CFP) 516–17 communication, developments in 452 communism 391, 395, 398, 480 Congo 431 Connolly, Patrick 491 Constitution 385, 393, 471, 495 Eighth Amendment 496 contraception 495–7, 502 Control of Manufactures Act (1932) 388, 410, 415 Cooney, Patrick 468, 475, 490 Córás Tráchtála 388, 400 Corish, Brendan 433, 438, 468, 481 Cosgrave, Liam 438, 442, 467–8, 472–6, 481 Costello, Declan 433 Costello, John A. 386–7, 391, 393–4, 396, 400–1, 424, 431


Council of Europe 395, 396 Council of Ireland 472–3 Council for the Status of Women (CSW) 477 Cox, Pat 502 Cruise O’Brien, Conor 461, 468, 475, 491 culture, popular 451–2, 524–5 Currie, Austin 525


D


Daly, Brendan 506 de Gaulle, Charles 443 de Valera, Éamon 385–6, 391, 393, 398–9, 403, 410, 419, 434, 435, 454, 521


Deasy, Austin 494 decolonisation 431 Desmond, Barry 494, 497 Dillon, James 387, 433 discrimination 439, 477 Division 461 divorce


ban on 422 referendum 497


Divorce Action Group (DAG) 497 Donegan, Patrick 476 drug use 523


Dublin/Monaghan bombings 474, 477 Dukes, Alan 490, 494, 502, 504, 506, 508 Dunn, Fr Joe 456


E


Economic Development 405–6, 415 economic planning 405


Economic and Social Research Institute (ESRI) 411 economy 387–10, 396, 401–7, 437, 468–9, 476–7, 484, 487, 492, 502–3, 507–8


ecumenism 449, 450 education 447–9, 480–1, 523 see also industrial schools, regional technical colleges, Vocational Education Committees primary 424–5, 448 secondary 425, 448 secularism in 450 third-level 426, 448–9, 481 vocational 425 Education, Council of 424 elections see by-elections, general elections, presidential election Electoral Amendment Act (1974) 481 emigration 400–1, 401, 402, 414–15, 419, 422–3, 426, 428, 437, 476, 503, 523


Employment Equality Act (1977) 478 Employment Equality Agency (EEA) 478 Enniskillen bombing 506 entertainment 421, 451–7 equality of opportunity 477


European Convention on Human Rights 395 European Economic Community (EEC) 395, 415, 442–3, 469–71, 509–20 Council of Ministers 471 Ireland’s membership of 442–3, 469–70, 477 Treaty of Accession 443


European Monetary System (EMS) 485 European Parliament 485 European Recovery Programme see Marshall Plan European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) 472 European Social Fund (ESF) 471 European Union (EU) see European Economic Community


Ewart-Biggs, Sir Christopher 475 External Relations Act (1936) 385, 393–4


F


Falklands War 491 Family Planning Act 485 Farm Modernisation Scheme 470 Faulkner, Brian 444, 472–4 Féach 461 Fianna Fáil 385–6, 389, 481, 496–8, 502, 521, 525 governments 390–1, 398–405, 412–14, 433–45,447, 468, 483–9, 490–2, 506–7


Fine Gael 386–7, 393, 400, 433, 438–9, 443, 445, 467–8, 481, 489, 490, 492, 494–9, 502, 504, 505–8, 525


fiscal rectitude 507 fish stocks 516 fisheries 509–20 FitzGerald, Garret 468, 470–1, 481, 489–90, 492, 501, 506, 508


as Taoiseach 494–500


Fitzgerald, Gene 484 Flanagan, Oliver J. 460 Flynn, Padraig 525 foreign investment 388, 410, 503, 508 Fox, Billy 475 free trade 405


G


Gael Linn 428 Gaelic League 460 Gaeltacht 428 General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) 411 general elections 1948: 386 1951: 396, 398 1954: 399 1957: 401 1961: 412 1965: 433–4 1969: 438–9 1973: 445, 467 1977: 481, 483 1981: 489 1982 (February): 490 1982 (November): 492 1987: 505–6 1989: 521


Geoghegan-Quinn, Máire 478, 487 Good Friday Agreement (1998) 500 grants schemes 400, 410, 415 to fisheries 509, 511, 515–6


Gregory, Tony 490 Griffin, Victor 496 GUBU 491


H


Harney, Mary 502 Harte, Patrick 472 Haughey, Charles J. 412, 432, 434–5, 439, 442, 461, 484, 485, 499–500, 502, 522


as Taoiseach 487–92, 506–9, 521, 525


Health Act (1953) 399 health policy 390–1, 393, 438 Heath, Edward 444, 471 Herrema, Tiede 475 Hillery, Patrick 412, 439, 443, 448, 471, 476, 511, 525 Hume, John 498–9 hunger strikes 488–9, 499 Hussey, Gemma 494


I


Independent Fianna Fáil 442 independent TDs 490 Industrial Development Authority (IDA) 388, 396, 400, 410, 415


industrial schools 426 industry 385, 387–8, 396, 400, 401, 407, 410–11, 414–15, 470


inflation 385, 400, 445, 469, 485, 487 International Financial Services Centre (IFSC) 507 International Monetary Fund (IMF) 502 internment 431–22, 444 inter-party governments first (1948–51) 384–96 second (1954–1957) 400


Ireland Act (1949) 394 Ireland’s Long-Term Recovery Programme 388 Irish Anti-Apartheid Movement (IAAM) 452 Irish Box 519 Irish Fishermen’s Organisation (IFO) 513 Irish Housewives Association 477 Irish language 427–8, 460–1, 480–1 Irish Medical Association (IMA) 391 Irish National Liberation Army (INLA) 487 Irish Republican Army (IRA) 394, 401, 442, 444–5, 474, 480, 487–9, 506 bombings 471, 474–7, 487, 500, 506 Border Campaign 431–2


J


John XXIII, Pope 449 John Paul II, Pope 479–80


K


Keane, John B. 427 Keating, Justin 468 Kelly, James 6318 Kelly, John 490 Kennedy, John F. 437 Keynes, John Maynard 414 Keynesian economics 414


L


Labour Court 385 Labour Party 400, 433, 438–9, 443, 481, 489, 492, 494–6, 499, 504, 505–6, 521, 525 Land Reclamation Bill (1949) 389 Late Late Show 457–60, 465 League of Nations 394 Lemass, Seán 385, 398–9, 403, 434, 435, 436 meetings with Terence O’Neill 432–3 as Taoiseach 410–15, 442–3


Lenihan, Brian 412, 434, 435, 506, 511, 525 liberalisation 453 Lynch, Jack 403, 412, 434, 472, 481, 486 as Taoiseach 435, 437, 439–45, 483–5


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