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Chapter 20
Ireland In The 1960
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Ireland in 1950's | Ireland in 1950's |
| What does protectionism mean | high charges on oods coming into Ireland to protect Irish businesses from foreign competition |
| Population fell to its lowest since the famine because of rural depopulation, what is rural depopulation | when young people left rural areas to find work and increasingly only older people remained |
| Why did Ireland have political instability | Ireland was still led by men such as Éamon de Valera who had fought in the war of independence Weak governments were unable to tackle the problems Ireland Faced |
| What economic change Seán Lemass bring to Ireland | He implemented the First Programme for economic expansion The main Aims Were: Free trade Encourage foreign investments Grants to business and farmers |
| How did Seán Lemass form a new relationship with Northern Ireland | He traveled to Belfast and met with the Northern Irish Prime Minister, they agreed to cooperate on non-controversial topics such as tourism, education and agriculture. |
| What was the result of this new relationship berween the north and south | Trade increased between the two parts of the Island |
| How did Ireland open up to the world | They Joined the united Nations and in the 1960's was elected tp the UN Security Council (its highest body) and Irish soldiers served in UN peacekeeping missions in the Congo, Cyprus and the middle East |
| The Government passing the Broadcast Authority Act meant that what television broadcast launched in Ireland | Telefís Eireann (later RTÉ) launched on 31 December 1961. |
| What 3 factors that were brought by television changed Irish Society | Foreign Influences Debating controversial Topics Challenging the Powerful |
| How did Foreign Influences influence Ireland | Foreign influences: People saw shows from the US and the UK and news from around the world. They could compare their lives to other people’s and ask why Ireland was different. |
| How Did Debating controversial Topics change Irish Society | Debating controversial topics: Programmes like The Late Late Show, under Gay Byrne, regularly discussed topics like marriage breakdown, contraception, women’s rights, religion, sex, homosexuality and the Traveller community, and over time helped to shift |
| How Did Debating controversial Topics change Irish Society | society’s attitudes on these topics. |
| How did Challenging the powerful change Irish Society | Challenging the powerful: On RTÉ, people saw political leaders, senior Catholic bishops and other important people in authority being openly challenged for the first time and having to defend their actions and answer questions. |
| Why Did Pope John XXIII want to reform the Catholic Church | to make it better suited to the modern world. |
| What Radical Changes Did The church Implement | The Mass was to be said in the vernacular (native language) instead of Latin, and the priest would face the congregation. Laypeople (non-priests) were given a greater role in the Church. |
| What Radical Changes Did The church Implement pt2 | The Bible was to be published in the vernacular, people were encouraged to read it themselves and all Church teachings were to come from the Bible. ECUMENISM sought more understanding and cooperation between the various different Christian Church |
| What Radical Changes Did The church Implement pt3 | around the world |
| What did people begin doing after these changes were implemented | more people began to question the teachings and authority of the Church. This would begin the gradual lessening of its influence on Irish society. |
| Why Did Donogh O'Malley Want To Expand The Educated Workforce In Ireland | Donogh O’Malley, wanted to expand the educated workforce so that Ireland would be more attractive to foreign businesses. |
| What Major Reforms to the Education system did Donogh O'Malley Introduce | free schooling up to the Intermediate Certificate (the old name for the Junior Cycle). free transport for students to schools. grants to build more schools. Regional Technical Colleges (the old name for Institutes of Technology) were opened. |
| What Was the Impact/Result of these Reforms | the numbers sitting the Leaving Certificate rose from 8,600 in 1961 to 24,000 in 1972. The practice of Irish children leaving education after primary school was ended by the early 1970s. |
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JMahango
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