Ireland’s accession to the European Economic Community in 1973 provided great opportunities, as well as significant challenges to its relatively small civil service. This research traces Ireland’s internal adaptation to managing membership.
Ireland’s accession to the European Economic Community in 1973 provided great opportunities, as well as significant challenges to its relatively small civil service. This research traces Ireland’s internal adaptation to managing membership.
The long wait for accession to the EEC had instigated administrative and management patterns during negotiations which were difficult for Ireland to untangle and alter afterwards. There was friction between departments on how to approach relations with the EEC in some policy areas after membership. At times, this effectively slowed and even hampered Ireland’s adaptation to membership. At the same time, the EEC provided an important new frame of reference for Irish society. Discussions on social progress drew from that wider context and challenged Ireland in new ways. This volume explores this development through an analysis of empirical files from the National Archives of Ireland and the Historical Archives of the European Union, newspapers and secondary sources.
This book is intended for scholars and students of Irish history, European Studies, political science, diplomatic studies, and administrative history.
Introduction
1. Ireland in a Changing International Arena
2. Orientation
Towards the Six
3. Modus Operandi: Department of Foreign Affairs
4. Tús
Maith, Leath na hOibre: Administering Membership Adaptation, Inertia and
New Perspectives
5. Getting Down to Membership: Managing European Regional
Development Funds, 19731975
6. Lobbying for ERDF and Challenging the
Introduction of Juste-retour
7. Managing Irelands First Presidency in 1975:
Is Féidir Linn
8. Was Irelands Chairmanship sans pouvoir?
9.
Contextualising the Implementation of Equal Pay
10. Securing Equal Pay.
Conclusion
Aoife Keogh graduated in History and Civilisation at the European University Institute in 2015 and currently teaches liberal studies at New York University, Florence and European history at Florida State University in Florence. This book is based on her doctoral dissertation.
