Politics
This Irish prime minister was finally voted out of office in 1948.
Eamon de Valera
This was the animalistic nickname given to the Irish economy during the 1990s, a time that saw designer stores and high end restaurants open in greater and greater numbers in Dublin
Celtic Tiger
Gerry Addams, the controversial then-leader of this political party, which operates in both Ireland and Northern Ireland, was granted a 48-hour visa to travel to the United States in 1994.
In the 1970s, this country claimed the second highest rate of weekly attendance at Catholic mass in Europe.
Northern Ireland
By the 1990s, many commentators predicted the extinction of these parts of Ireland, known as the Gaeltacht
Irish-speaking
The Irish prime minister's official title in Irish is this.
Taoiseach
In the 1950s, more than 400,000 Irish people did this, a sign of the Ireland's continued economic stagnation.
emigrated
During the mid-1980s, the New Ireland Forum established a blueprint for negotiations over the status of Northern Ireland that culminated with this international agreement in 1985
Anglo-Irish Agreement [joint diplomacy between the governments of Ireland and Britain viz. Northern Ireland]
Passed in 1978, the Health (Family Planning) Bill allowed married Irish women access to this with a prescription
contraception (or, birth control)
Irish musical artists U2, Bob Geldof, and Sinead O'Conor all made international news for their involvement in these types of causes during the 1980s and 1990s.
human rights
These two political parties traded control over Ireland's government Ireland 12 times between 1973 and 1998
350 international companies established operations in Ireland during this decade
1960s
**Bonus Open Notes Question** [Double Points]
These have been the two major aims of the Irish government's policy with respect to its relationship with Northern Ireland since the 1960s [correcty describe both aims in complete sentences].
--serve as the guardian of Catholics in NI
--protect its own economic and social stability viz events in NI
In 1990, Mary Robinson became the first woman in Ireland to hold this office
President
One indication of Ireland's outsized influence in modern global culture is the proliferation of these in cities as far flung as Mumbai, Buenos Aires, Tokyo, and Lagos.
Irish pubs
**Bonus Open Notes Question** [Double Points]
This is one point of similarity between the political parties Fianna Fail and Fine Gael since the 1970s. [Answer must be in the form of a complete sentence.
Host will judge correct/incorrect answers.
By the 1990s, 7% of Ireland's Gross Domestic Product was the result of this industry, one that had benefitted from a growing number of transatlantic flights during the previous three decades
tourism
Ireland's membership in the European Economic Community (EEC) in 1973 significantly benefitted this area of its economy, as brands like Kerrygold became household names across Western Europe.
agriculture (or farming)
**Bonus Open Notes Question** [Double Points]
In a single sentence, identify one issue that has led growing numbers of Irish men and women in the 1980s and 1990s to be more likely to defy the teachings and guidance of the Roman Catholic Church.
Possible answers:
--access to birth control
--access to abortion
--decriminalizing homosexuality
--the right to a divorce
This religious practice experienced a resurgence in Ireland during the 1980s, with a shrine in the Irish town of Knock becoming one of Ireland's most popular destinations.
pilgrimmage
Fine Gael prime minister John Costello declared in 1948 that Ireland would become this
**Bonus Open Notes Question** [Double Points]
True or False: According to Senia Paseta, Ireland's economy has not modernized to comparable levels with other Western developed nations.
False
By the late 1990s, 26% of Irish exports went to ________, while 48% went to ___________, marking a major shift in Ireland's international trade from only two decades previously [fill in both blanks correctly]
Britain and continental Europe
In 1990, this band paid a 500 pound fine on behalf of the Irish Family Planning Association for selling condom's in the Virgin megastore in Dublin.
U2
**Bonus Open Notes Question** [Double Points]
Correctly identify one specific example that Paseta gives for how distinctively Irish traditions have persisted even amidst the country's modernization during the 1990s and early-2000s
Examples:
--popularity of Irish names
--Celtic imagery in public life
--traditional music's popularity
--Ireland's literary tradition (in English) remains influential