3rd Year History

•IRELAND AFTER 1945

 •Defeat for DeValera because:

• People wanted a
change
• Unemployment and
emigration
•1948 to 1951 The First Inter-Party
government.
• Fine Gael, Labour and Clan na Poblachta.
• Taoiseach was John A Costello. Sean MacBride (external affairs),
Noel Browne (Health).

• Achievments:
• 1949 Republic
• Marshall Aid built houses and hospitals
• Rural electricification
• Fight against TB
• IDA set up to attract foreign industry to Ireland
• The Mother and Child scheme
•1951 - 1959
• 1951- 1954 DeValera in power.

• Better social welfare but still high unemployment and emigration

• 1954 – 1957 The Second Inter-Party government

• Joined UN
• Took action against IRA for border attacks (Clan na Poblachta pulled
out of the government as a result)

• 1957-1959

• DeV again interned IRA

• 1959 Dev became President for the next 14 years
• Lemass took over as Taoiseach
•LEMASS IN GOVERNMENT
•Change in Style and Approach

• Lemass appointed younger

ministers like Lynch, Haughey
and Donough O Malley
• TK Whittaker drew up the First
Programme for Economic
Expansion, which:
• Got rid of Protectionism.
• Encouraged exports.
• Grants and tax concessions to
attract foreign industry
•“Swinging Sixties”

• Lemass met Terence O Neill.

• New schools were built.
• Free Secondary education
introduced
• First shopping centres built
• Finglas, Ballymun, Ballyfermot
etc.were built.
• RTE set up
• ‘Swinging Sixties’
• JFK arrived.
• YEARS OF UNCERTAINTY
1966 –1985.
• Jack Lynch as Taoiseach 1966
– 1973
• 1970 The Arms crisis. Blaney
and Haughey and Blaney
sacked. Boland resigned in
sympathy. Haughey later
acquitted.
• The campaign to join the EEC.
We signed up on the 1st
January 1973.
•The Coalition government 1973 – 1977

• Fine Gael and Labour led by Liam Cosgrave.

• Oil crisis led to inflation and unemployment. Taxes
increased.
• Sunningdale signed by Heath and Cosgrave but the
new power-sharing agreement was broken by Unionist
opposition
• 1974 Dublin and Monaghan bombings.
•1977 - 1987
• 1977 – 1981 Fianna Fail returns

• ‘Give-away election’
• 1979 Lynch resigned and Haughey took over.

• 1981 Coalition under Garret Fitzgerald (FG and Lab)

• 1982 Haughey and FF in power for 10 months

• 1982 –1987 FG under Fitzgerald

• Still inflation, debt, high taxes, emigration and unemployment.

• Fitzgerald and Thatcher signed the Anglo-Irish agreement in 1985. It
stated that the Republic would have a say in running Northern
Ireland..