Ireland and the Marshall Plan

by Whelan, Bernadette

• ISBN13: 9781851825172
• ISBN10: 1851825177
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2000-04-01
• Publisher: Four Courts Press

Author Biography

Dr Bernadette Whelan is a lecturer in modern history in the Department of Government and Society, University of Limerick

Table of Contents

List of Tables	7	(1)
List of Abbreviations	8	(3)
Acknowledgments	11	(2)
Introduction	13	(6)
The Irish invitation, 1945--7	19	(32)
The origins of the Marshall Plan	19	(6)
The invitation to join the Marshall Plan	25	(16)
Ireland's response	41	(9)
Conclusion	50	(1)
The first attempt at unity: Ireland, Europe, the United States and the Committee of European Economic Co-operation, June 1947--February 1948	51	(40)
Marshall's offer, Europe's reaction	51	(9)
Ireland and the CEEC: summer 1947	60	(22)
Presentation of the CEEC report in Washington and crisis in Europe: winter 1947--8	82	(5)
Conclusion	87	(4)
Ireland, America and the establishment of the Marshall Plan, January 1948-June 1948	91	(64)
The Inter-Party Government: external affairs	91	(9)
MacBride and the civil service	100	(5)
Boland and the Marshall Plan	105	(5)
The Marshall Plan bureaucracy: Ireland and Washington	110	(20)
The loan/grant issue	130	(4)
The Washington trip: loan, grant, partition	134	(19)
Conclusion	153	(2)
Ireland and European integration: the Organisation for European Economic Co-operation	155	(40)
Irish policy and the creation of the OEEC	155	(5)
The German and Spanish questions	160	(4)
Sean MacBride, the CEEC and the OEEC Charter	164	(11)
Ireland and OEEC reform	175	(10)
Ireland and the liberalisation of trade and payments matters	185	(8)
Conclusion	193	(2)
The Marshall planners and the dollar import programme, 1948-51	195	(42)
Inter-agency relations and reporting procedures	195	(6)
The dollar import programme	201	(9)
Operating the import programme	210	(3)
Under-utilisation of ERP dollars, and economics, 1948-9	213	(7)
The 1949/50 and 1950/1 import programmes and problems	220	(8)
Conclusion	228	(9)
The Loan Counterpart Fund, 1948-52	237	(49)
The government's investment plans	237	(9)
Opposition to the investment plans	246	(15)
Using the American Loan Counterpart Fund	261	(4)
The Land Reclamation project, 1949-58	265	(19)
Conclusion	284	(2)
The Grant Counterpart Fund, 1949-57	286	(29)
Negotiation	286	(12)
Utilisation	298	(16)
Conclusion	314	(1)
The American way: the push for production and productivity	315	(45)
The Technical Assistance Programme and Ireland	315	(13)
Technical assistance and tourism	328	(13)
Technical assistance and dollar exports	341	(9)
Technical assistance, trade unions and productivity	350	(7)
Conclusion	357	(3)
The Marshall Plan: publicity and propaganda	360	(36)
The ECA and fighting communism	360	(3)
The Irish government and ERP publicity	363	(9)
Film and ERP propaganda	372	(10)
Propaganda and publicity: the balance sheet	382	(12)
Conclusion	394	(2)
Conclusion	396	(7)
Bibliography	403	(8)
Index	411