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Titre : | Cumann na nGaedheal, sea fishing and west Galway, 1923-32 (2008) |
Auteurs : | Micheal O FATHARTAIGH, Auteur |
Type de document : | Article |
Dans : | Irish Historical Studies (vol 36 n 141 2008) |
Article en page(s) : | p. 72-90 |
Langues: | Anglais |
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Résumé : | In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the British government made a vigorous effort to ameliorate poverty in the west of Ireland. In 1891 the Congest Districts Board (C.D.B.) was established, with an array of special powers to promote economic development in the west. It recognised that land could only play a limited role in development due to its generally poor quality, but that sea fishing had significant potential. Nowhere was this more obvious than west Galway, where the majority of people were farmer-fishermen, living either on the islands or along a coastal belt on the mainland because fishing offered some compensation for inadequate land. Sea fishing in west Galway was, however, for the most part primitive. The C.D.B. sponsored sea fishing in the region, and the period leading up to and during the First World War brought unprecedented prosperity, yet this was short-lived. By 1923 sea fishing in west Galway had regressed and the new Irish government, Cumann na nGaedheal, had to contend with the consequences. The purpose of this article is to examine the effect of Cumann na nGaedheal sea-fishing policy on west Galway, and in so doing to carry out an examination of government support for sea fishing in the first decade of independence |
Pays de publication : | Irlande |
Mention de responsabilité : | Micheal O Fathartaigh |
Fonds : | Médiathèque |