Tuairim, intellectual debate and policy formulation: Rethinking Ireland, 1954-75 - Softcover

Finn, Tomas

 
9780719095436: Tuairim, intellectual debate and policy formulation: Rethinking Ireland, 1954-75
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0719095433 ISBN 13: 9780719095436
Verlag: Manchester University Press, 2014

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Explores how from its formation in 1954 the intellectual movement Tuairim ('opinion' in Irish) was at the vanguard of the challenge to orthodoxy and conservatism.

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Tomás Finn is a lecturer in Modern Irish History at National University of Ireland, Galway

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The 1950s and 1960s were a transformative phase in modern Irish history. In these years a conservative society dominated by the Catholic Church, and a state which was inward-looking and distrustful of novelty, gradually opened up to fresh ideas about politics, the economy, society and religion. This book considers this change. It explores how from its formation in 1954 the intellectual movement Tuairim (‘opinion’ in Irish) was at the vanguard of the challenge to orthodoxy and conservatism.

Tuairim initiated and contributed to debates on issues as diverse as Northern Ireland, administrative and political reform, education, childcare and censorship. The society established branches throughout Ireland, including in Belfast, and London. Tuairim produced frequent critical publications on burning issues and boasted a roster of members who would go on to become luminaries in Irish public life; Dr Garret FitzGerald, the future Taoiseach, Donal Barrington, later a Supreme Court Judge, Miriam Hederman O’Brien, a future Chancellor in the University of Limerick and David Thornley, subsequently a distinguished television presenter and a Labour party TD. Until its disbandment in 1975, Tuairim occupied a unique position within contemporary debates on Ireland’s present and future. This book is concerned with the role that the society played in the modernisation of Ireland during the 1950s and 1960s. In so doing it also addresses topics of continued relevance for the Ireland of today, including the Northern Ireland Peace Process and the institutional care of children.

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The 1950s and 1960s were a transformative phase in modern Irish history. In these years a conservative society dominated by the Catholic Church, and a state which was inward-looking and distrustful of novelty, gradually opened up to fresh ideas about politics, the economy, society and religion. This book considers this change. It explores how from its formation in 1954 the intellectual movement Tuairim ( opinion in Irish) was at the vanguard of the challenge to orthodoxy and conservatism. Tuairim initiated and contributed to debates on issues as diverse as Northern Ireland, administrative and political reform, education, childcare and censorship. The society established branches throughout Ireland, including in Belfast, and London. Tuairim produced frequent critical publications on burning issues and boasted a roster of members who would go on to become luminaries in Irish public life; Dr Garret FitzGerald, the future Taoiseach, Donal Barrington, later a Supreme Court Judge, Miriam Hederman O Brien, a future Chancellor in the University of Limerick and David Thornley, subsequently a distinguished television presenter and a Labour party TD. Until its disbandment in 1975, Tuairim occupied a unique position within contemporary debates on Ireland s present and future. This book is concerned with the role that the society played in the modernisation of Ireland during the 1950s and 1960s. In so doing it also addresses topics of continued relevance for the Ireland of today, including the Northern Ireland Peace Process and the institutional care of children.

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Verlag
Manchester University Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2014
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0719095433
ISBN 13 
9780719095436
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Anzahl der Seiten
264
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