Full Description
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.
Contents
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
