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A New Premier

A New Premier. March 1963 Lord Brookeborough resigns Replaced by Captain TERENCE O’NEILL. Was O’Neill Mr. Popular?. Evidence suggests that the Unionist Party MPs wanted Home Affairs minister Brian Faulkner to succeed.

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A New Premier

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  1. A New Premier • March 1963 Lord Brookeborough resigns • Replaced by Captain TERENCE O’NEILL

  2. Was O’Neill Mr. Popular? • Evidence suggests that the Unionist Party MPs wanted Home Affairs minister Brian Faulkner to succeed. • However the leader was decided by a group of senior party members, not by election. This is how O’Neill became the new Prime Minister. • What affect do you think this might have on O’Neill as leader of Northern Ireland?

  3. O’Neill introduced policies unheard of under Brookeborough • His policies were new: he hoped to attract investment to the ailing shipbuilding and linen industries, to forge new links with the trade unions, to bring Protestants and Catholics into working relationships, and to end sectarianism and the long injustice of Protestant rule.

  4. Policies- • An investment of £900m in the economy • Modernisation of the railway system • Co-operation with Dublin-based Trades Union Congress- important for economic development • Creation of Ministry of Development to drive economic development • The establishment of a new City- Craigavon • Development of a new university in the market town of Coleraine

  5. University of Coleraine

  6. O’Neill’s economic policies • O’Neill believed the ‘face of Ulster’ had to be transformed if it was to prosper. • A number of key economic measures were introduced or proposed during his time as Prime Minister. It is a new motorway driving deeper into the province. It is a new hospital in Londonderry- the most modern in the British Isles. It is new laboratories and research facilities at Queen’s to carry us to the frontiers of existing knowledge and beyond.

  7. What do you think the benefits of these policies would be? • Think about better transport- what are it’s benefits? • What does a University provide? • In the next lesson we will study the outcomes of these policies, if they were a success or not.

  8. Where O’Neill’s policies a success? • Many policies had a positive impact • A number of multinational firms such as DuPont, Goodyear, ICI and Grundig opened factories in Northern Ireland.

  9. The construction of a motorway system had begun. • An oil refinery was opened in Belfast. • A new airport was opened in Belfast. • Links with the Republic of Ireland resulted in the signing of an agreement on the supply of electricity from the South. • In total over 35,000 new jobs were created during the 1960s.

  10. Not everyone was pleased with the policies! • Over 20,000 jobs were lost in the ailing traditional industries such as linen manufacture. • Between 1963 and 1969 financial assistance had to be given to shipbuilders Harland and Wolff to keep it afloat.

  11. More problems! • Unemployment averaged between 7% and 8% (Unemployment now is less than 5%) • Several companies refused government grants to open factories west of the Bann, seeing the area as too remote from their export markets.

  12. Northern Ireland

  13. This had severe implications! • Unemployment in the West remained high at 12.5% • Many Catholics were upset that few new jobs were created west of the Bann. Most investment went into the Protestant east Belfast.

  14. Turn to page 107 • Do question 6- Construct a table to show the economic successes and failures of O’Neill’s policies • Write a newspaper article giving your view point on O’Neill’s economic policies. Argue whether you believe that O’Neill’s policies were a success or a failure.

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