Word: irelands
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...BACK JACK, urged the campaign banners of Ireland's Fianna Fáil (Band of Destiny) Party. Going to the polls last week in the country's first general election in four years, Irish voters did exactly that. In a stunning upset, John ("Gentleman Jack") Lynch and his Fianna Fáil ousted the coalition government of Prime Minister Liam Cosgrave's Fine Gael (Family of the Irish) and the Irish Labor Party. Even though Ireland's proportional representation system had been gerrymandered by the government to compensate for Fianna Fáil's traditional...
...vote was in sharp contrast to the placid and generally lackluster campaign that preceded it. Shortly before election day, according to one survey, 43% of the eligible voters felt that it made little difference which party won. Obviously, though, they cared more than the pollsters and politicians suspected. With Ireland suffering its worst economic slump in 50 years-unemployment has reached 10% and inflation 16%-voters were apparently impressed by Lynch's Action Plan for National Reconstruction, which promised, among other things, to create 20,000 new jobs...
...London that Lynch's party was a bit soft on the Irish Republican Army, and that a Fianna Fáil government would repolarize the situation in Ulster by stirring up suspicions among its Protestant majority. Fianna Fáil favors eventual withdrawal of British forces from Northern Ireland and peaceful reunification of North and South, while the Fine Gael downplays unification and seeks to allay Protestant fears...
...estimate more than $450 million has been invested in Ireland by U.S. companies ranging from General Electric, which makes components for color-television sets, to Bally Manufacturing Corp., the Chicago slot-machine company, which exports one-armed bandits from Dublin to Sydney. "We couldn't do business in Australia without that Dublin plant," says Bill O'Donnell, Bally's president, "because Ireland qualifies for special treatment on tariffs there." Although Keating is concentrating his efforts on the U.S., he recently lured Beecham Group Ltd., the big British pharmaceutical firm, to invest in a 50-acre site near...
...unique demography of Ireland (almost half the population is under 25) ensures that even if a controversial bill on family planning is passed by the government, some 30,000 new jobs must be created each year. Thus there is little or no resentment against foreign investors, save for the lunatic fringe of the I.R.A. In fact, the Irish color the overseas invasion with a touch of wit. Asahi, the $1.8 billion Japanese chemical concern, planted a $100 million textile factory in the barren wilds of Mayo, a western county haunted by memories of famine and emigration. Its peasantry have always...