Week 9

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Topics

De Valera's Ireland
Ireland after World War 2

Tutorial Focus Questions

Discuss the relationship between the State and the Catholic Church in Ireland and the implications of that relationship for Irish women in the period from the establishment of the Irish free state until the 1950s.

Essential Reading

Beaumont, Catriona, 'Women, Citizenship and Catholicism in the Irish Free State 1922-1948', Women's History Review 6 (1997), pp. 563-84.

Recommended Readings

• Clear, Catriona, Women of the House: Women’s Household Work in Ireland 1922–1961 (Dublin, 2000) [short loan].
• Coogan, Tim Pat, De Valera: Long Fellow, Long Shadow (London, 1993) [short loan].
• Edwards, Owen Dudley, Eamon de Valera (Washington, 1987) [short loan].
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• Fallon, Brian, An Age of Innocence: Irish Culture 1930–1960 (New York, 1998) pp.257-71.
• Foster, Roy, Modern Ireland, 1600–1972 (London, 1988) [short loan].
• Gray, Tony, The lost years: the emergency in Ireland, 1939-45 (London, 1997) [short loan].
• Hayes, Alan and Diane Urquhart (eds.), The Irish women’s history reader (London, 2001) [short loan].
• Hoppen, K. Theodore, Ireland Since 1800: Conflict and Conformity (London, 1999) [short loan].
• Jackson, Alvin, Ireland 1798-1998: Politics and War (Oxford, 1999) [short loan].
• Keogh, Dermot, Twentieth Century Ireland: Nation and State (Dublin, 1994) [short loan].
• Lee, J. J. Ireland 1912–1985, Politics and Society (Cambridge, 1989) [short loan].
• O'Carroll, John P. and John . Murphy (eds) De Valera and his times (Cork, 1983).
• Townshend, C. Ireland—the twentieth century (London, 1999) [short loan].
  

Lecture Outlines

De Valera's Ireland

1. Post 1923 Ireland
2. De Valera and Fianna F‡il
3. De Valera in Power
4. Dismantling the Treaty

Cumann na nGaedheal Party
Statute of Westminster
Irish government prohibited divorce by law (1923).
Censorship of Films Act (1923).
Censorship of Publications Act (1929).
Garda
Séan Lemass
Anglo-Irish 'Economic War', 1932-38
De Valera's Constitution for 'Ireland' (ratified 1937)
Articles Two and Three (concerning Northern Ireland)
Article 44 (recognizes preeminent position of Catholic Church)
Control of Manufactures Act (1938)
Anglo-Irish Agreements (1938)


Ireland After World War II

1. Irish Neutrality in World War II
2. Post-War Politics & Republic of Ireland Act, 1948
3. Ireland in the 1950s

J. J. Lee, Ireland 1912-1985, Politics and Society (Cambridge, 1989)
Dermot Keogh, Twentieth Century Ireland: Nation and State (Dublin, 1994)
Brian Fallon, An Age of Innocence: Irish Culture 1930-1960 (New York, 1998)

Fine Gael
John Costello Clan na Poblachta
Séan McBride
Fianna Fáil
Commission on Emigration
Industrial Development Authority
Noel Brown
T. K. Whitaker
Sean Lemass
Jack Lynch
General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade