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Although the 1950s were destined to widen dramatically the differences between the two Irish jurisdictions, and to produce contrasting levels of economic and social performance, they dawned on a misleadingly similar note throughout the island, with both regimes anticipating improved conditions for their people.
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See John Whyte, Church and State in Modern Ireland, 1923–1970 (Dublin, 1971), chs 7 and 8;
Noel Browne, Against the Tide (Dublin, 1986), chs 9–11.
See, for example, Kieran Kennedy, Thomas Giblin and Deirdre McHugh, The Economic Development of Ireland in the Twentieth Century (London, 1988), pp. 124–5.
John E. Sayers, ‘The Political Parties and the Social Background’, in Thomas Wilson (ed.), Ulster under Home Rule (Oxford, 1955), p. 71
David Harkness, Northern Ireland since 1920 (Dublin, 1983), p. 131.
R. Fanning, Independent Ireland (Dublin, 1983), p. 195.
Terence O’Neill, Ulster at the Cross-roads (London, 1969), p. 173.
J. J. Lee, Ireland 1912–1985 (Cambridge, 1989), p. 429.
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Harkness, D. (1996). Neighbours of a Kind: 1950–72. In: Ireland in the Twentieth Century. British History in Perspective. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-24267-2_6
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