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Irish language was as exotic as spanish

American influence > british once again

TV came at the beginning of 62, more industrializing. Lots of debate followed on what should be shown on TV, the conservative Irish didn't like critical plays about the state, promiscuous subjects & preferred to promote rural Irish culture

Jadotville outcome - Eire humiliated on the global stage; they cant hang militarily and as earlier proven, nor economically. Some soldiers go back for revenge. Eire wants to take on the future, but isnt prepared to

Why would Hammarskjold & the UN be in the capital of Katanga, Elizabethville, if theyre supposedly supporting Lumumba

Baluba began to refer to any bad thing or person in ireland

"African Violet? Whats next Baluba Black?" - reflects both racism & xenophobia

Wild west similarity in american indian portrayal of africans

Irish deaths in the Congo are martytrs, buried w/ Michael Collins; juxtaposes w/ racial black on white violence element

O'Tooles uncle was among the hostages;
'The UN was committed to supporting Lumumba's government' lets ask Dag Hammarskjold his thoughts on the matter. He portrays the conflics as UN & Ireland supporting the Congo while The US, Britain & France supported Katanga
'Katanga could be seen as an African Ulster" - outweighed desired connection to western powers

Irish Un soldiers in Jadotville #crossover

Crumlin sucked but they had runnign water which made them feel like they were better than most other Irish. Carring water from the pump was a HUGE role for irish women, being used in adverts

Electricity Supply Board helped aid the people in adaptation

Building the suburb of Crumlin where O'Toole grew up. Designed after a Eucharist Badge (terribly), the notion of intrusion began to emerge. Before, Irish neighbors were very nosy & invikved in each others lives, people in Crumlin felt intrusive doing that.
The spread of running water & electricity to rural Eire has been big, Siemens built a hydroelectric plant on the river Shannon

1959- De Valera steps down as Taoiseach & is replaced by Lemass. De Valera maintains a ceremonial presidential role, while Lemass gets full reign for his economic plan

Ppl wanted nuclear families

Prominent fascist Ernest Blythe ran the Abbey Theater; Hit play Sive & the desire for nuclear families vs older household structures

The colonized often see being colonized by another third party as freeing (i.e Irish views of American economic investment vs British).

The great gamble of 1958: we change the economic system but the culture stays the same (catholic, pious, etc)

Economic Development: The Grey Book; written by Ken Whittaker, imagined a future Ireland integrated in Europe, embracing free trade & exporting. De Valera acted like this was always his plan to save political face.

PUERTO RICO REFERENCED: PR industrialized first & the Stacy May report referenced their methods as a potential way for Eire
"One way out of economic protectionism might be to become, economically, a US protectorate"

They preferred American investment vs british

The debate: free trade will ruin our industry bc every other country is better & noone wants our stuff
But, if we keep isolating well disappear both metaphorically & eventually maybe literally

No NATO membership, joined bretton woods groups late; Eire doesn't have a place on the global scale, as it doesn't have a place bc of all the mass emigration

Lots of Irish sentiments are anti-semitism & anti-communist adjacent

Since 1932 they ran high tariffs seeking economic self sufficencu

Catholic church stifling agricultural development, stopping the building of colleges & creation of a national institute. Eire could raise cows & sheep, but sucked at making products like dairy & had no fishing industry

"Militant nationalism needed regular transfusions of young blood to keep it alive"

Eire is super conservative, right wing ( by modern standards), catholic; i.e JD Vance

"Martyrdom had a powerful emotional radiance In a culture shaped by the fusion of political myths of blood sacrifice with the religious drama of Christ's death & resurrection"