•IRELAND AFTER 1945

3rd Year History

•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..