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Titre : | 'England owes something to these people' : The Anglo-Irish Unemployment Insurance Agreement, 1946 (2012) |
Auteurs : | Bernard KELLY, Auteur |
Type de document : | Article |
Dans : | Irish Historical Studies (vol. 38 n 150 2012) |
Article en page(s) : | p.269-282 |
Langues: | Anglais |
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Résumé : | On 19 December 1946, the Irish President, Sean T. O'Kelly, signed the Unemployment Insurance Act into law. This innocuous-sounding piece of legislation has received vey little attention from historians, but was of great importance to one section of post-war Irish society. Under its terms, Dublin and London entered into a special scheme whereby Irish men and women who had served with the British forces during the Second World War were allowed to claim British unemployment insurance payments, while still resident in the twenty-six counties of independant Ireland. Coming at a time of unemployment and economic slump in Ireland, this was of crucial importance to many ex-servicemen. This article will explore the background, negotiation and implementation of unemployment insurance agreement, and will speculate on the reasons why the Taoiseach, Eamon de Valera, agreed to it. It will also examine the British side of the scheme and explore London's motives, both concrete and notional |
Pays de publication : | Grande-Bretagne (Royaume Uni) |
Lieu de publication : | Belfast |
Mention de responsabilité : | Bernard Kelly |
Fonds : | Médiathèque |