1st Edition

Protectionism to Liberalisation Ireland and the EEC, 1957 to 1966

By Maurice Fitzgerald Copyright 2000
    450 Pages
    by Routledge

    450 Pages
    by Routledge

    This title was first published in 2000. This work examines Irish government towards European integration in the second post-war decade by concentrating on crisis points or flash points, it does this in a fairly subject-oriented manner concerning Dublin's decision-making processes. The central themes of this study are concentrated on economic matters, but they deal with other tenets when relevant too, be they of a cultural, diplomatic, ideological, military, political or social nature.

    1: Small power and peripheral: Ireland in the 1950s; 2: From the OEEC to EFTA, 1957 to 1959; 3: Ireland’s first EEC application, 31 July 1961; 4: De Gaulle’s refusal of the UK, 14 January 1963; 5: The 1965 Anglo-Irish FTA agreement; 6: Ireland’s European integration, 1957 to 1966; Conclusions

    Biography

    Maurice Fitzgerald