Week Three Reading

Topic: Social Change in Ireland, 1959-1979

Compulsory:

Speech by Minister for Education, Donogh O’Malley, to National Union of Journalists at the Royal Marine Hotel, Dun Laoghaire, 10/9/1966. This is available via email only, so check/activate your UCC email accounts. If you have any problems, contact Gabriel Doherty.

See the links:
http://0-www.irishtimes.com.innopac.ucc.ie/newspaper/archive/1966/0912/Pg001.html

http://0-www.irishtimes.com.innopac.ucc.ie/newspaper/archive/1966/0912/Pg013.html

See also, Sunday Independent, 11/9/1966, available on:
http://0-www.irishnewsarchive.com.innopac.ucc.ie/Default/Skins/INA/Client.asp?Skin=INA&enter=true&AppName=2&AW=1225304116121

See also Diarmaid Ferriter, What If? (Dublin, 2006) [941.5 FERR], Chapter on Donogh O'Malley and free post-primary education

NOTE:
These links can be accessed from campus computers ONLY

Recommended:

General
D Keogh, Twentieth Century Ireland, chapter 6
JJ Lee, Ireland 1912-1985, chapter 5
B Girvin, From Union to Union, chapter 7
D Ferriter, Transformation of Ireland, chapter 6


Specific
T Brown, Ireland: A Social and Cultural History 1922-2002 (Dublin, 2003)
JJ Lee (editor): Ireland 1945-70 (Dublin, 1979)
B Girvin and G Murphy (editors): The Lemass Era: Politics and Society in the Ireland of Seán Lemass (Dublin, 2005)
[Especially John Walsh on education]
T Garvin: Preventing the Future: Why was Ireland so Poor for So Long? (Dublin, 2004)
Sean O'Connor: A Troubled Sky (Dublin, 1986)
Sean Farren in JR Hill (Editor): A New History of Ireland Volume VI: Ireland 1921-1984 (Oxford, 1996)
P O Maille: Memories of Donogh O'Malley (Dublin, 2007)