O'Neills Reforms
1963 -1967
Key Questions:
How did O'Neill attempt to improve NI's economy?
How did he attempt to improve relations with the Republic of Ireland?
How did he attempt to improve relations with Catholics / Nationalists?
What was the reaction from Unionists and Nationalists to his policies?
Terence O'Neill
Prime Minister of Northern Ireland
How did Terence O'Neill try to improve relations with Catholics / Nationalists?
Met with Cardinal Conway the Leader of Catholic Church in Ireland | Expressed condolences on the death of the Pope in 1963 |
Visited Catholic Schools | Increased funding for the Mater Hospital
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How did O'Neill attempt to improve Northern Ireland's Economy?
How succesful were O'Neill's
economic policies?
Unemployment still high in the west - 12%
Many thought University should have been built in Derry.
Money pumped into Harland and Wolff by the Government to keep it open.
Companies refused grants to set up West of the Bann.
How did O'Neill attempt to improve relations with the Republic of Ireland?
O'Neill met Sean Lemass twice in 1965.
Lemass was the Taoiseach or Prime Minister of the Republic of Ireland.
This was the first meeting of this kind in 40 years!
Lemass: "I shall get into trouble for this"
O'Neill: "No, Mr Lemass, it is I who shall get into trouble..."
Reaction to O'Neill's Reforms