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Election 1945

10 nationalist MPs elected

Anti-Partition league

United NI nationalists against partition, Eddie Mcateer held convention, receive support from Irish Minister External affairs Seán Macbride

ROI act

Dec 1948 Republic of Ireland act passed in south

Ireland act

Ireland act 1949 recognised Irish republic, kept north British

Operation harvest

12 December 1956 IRA launched operation harvest, crossed border and carried out coordinated attacks on targets in NI incl RUC barracks

BB response

Closed boarder roads 21 December and other patrolled by ruc and b specials

Suspected IRA members interned without trial

Results

Called off feb 1962, 12 IRA deaths, 6 RUC deaths, 1 mil damages

Traditional industries

Decline after ww2, largest linen mills York street and Brookfield mill in Belfast forced to close

Ship building

Faced competition from Germany and Japan, air travel

Industry employment percentages

1950s linen and shipbuilding 50%, 1970 less than 25%

gov act

1945 industries development act, sites grants and loans to new industries

1963 50k jobs

Aid to industries

1961-1964 aid to industries act assist struggling companies to maintain employment

Industrial advice act

1964-67 industrial advice and enterprise acts

Foreign companies

1960s factories east of bann, Michelin tyres, 20k jobs by 1969

Unemployment

1963 9.5% vs Uk 2.6%

C vs P unemployment

1950s c 10% p 5%