Ambiguous Republic by Ferriter, Diarmaid -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Cover Page Title Page Copyright Page Dedication Contents Acknowledgements Timeline Introduction: Old Moulds Broken? Part I: Irish Political and Administrative Culture

1 Ballymagash Style Politics 2 How to Win the Next Election 3 Identifying the Problems 4 Servants of the Minister 5 Political Soul-Searching 6 Leaders and Aspirants 7 Shuffling the Traditional Ranks 8 Status, Perception and the Press 9 A Tedious Honour?

Part II: The Impact of the Troubles on the Republic

10 A Post-1916 Mood 11 Studied Indifference or Generous Tolerance? 12 Lost Reputations and Suppressed Truth 13 Green America and Blue Britain 14 Reporting and Broadcasting the Conflict 15 Possibilities, Encounters and Institutions to Trust 16 Visitors from the North 17 A More Tolerant Republic? 18 Trouble Spills Over the Border 19 A Passion for Unity?

Part III: Commemoration, Memory, Cultural Life and Entertainment

20 Remembering the Fight for Freedom 21 History Wars 22 Irish Identity on Stage 23 Music and Language: Redeploying Tradition 24 Artistic Creativity and Challenges 25 Expanding the Broadcasting Horizons 26 Screening and Reporting Ireland 27 The Sporting Irish

Part IV: Rights, Responsibilities and Justice

28 Troubling Times for the Guardians of the Peace 29 A Discredited Force? 30 The Terror of Urban Decay? 31 Controversial Custodies and Contemptuous Judges 32 Reforming the Law 33 Inalienable Rights of the Child?

Part V: Foreign Affairs

34 Taking the European Plunge 35 Brittany Reunions, Public Apathy and Thinking European 36 Negotiating the Benefits and the Dilemmas 37 Fear of Enlargement and Striving for Sex Appeal after the Honeymoon Ends 38 Garret’s Wider Mission 39 Leverage with Washington 40 Ireland of the Welcomes? 41 Marketing Ireland

Part VI: The Economy

42 The Irish Economic Dilemma 43 The Cost of Living, Poverty and Giving Up Meat 44 Local Finance, Economic Patriotism, Competitiveness and Employment 45 Spending, Planning and Pleading 46 Taxing, Dodging, Negotiating and Protesting 47 Strikes Raging, Babies Howling 48 Hoping to Strike It Rich

Part VII: Social Change

49 The Urban/Rural Divide 50 Taking Responsibility for the Irish Abroad? 51 Living on the Edge 52 The Broader Social Outlook 53 Eating and Drinking through the Seventies 54 A New Affluence 55 Fatal Lifestyles and the Health System Challenge 56 Protecting the Purity of the Republic

Part VIII: New Horizons: Education, Religion and the Status of Women

57 Democratising Education? 58 Practising Lapsed Catholics 59 Breaking the Shackles

Bibliography Notes List of Illustrations Index Footnotes

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