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So did Lemass make modern Ireland?
on RTE 9.30pm tonight.
So did Lemass make modern Ireland?
'A defeatist attitude now would surely lead to defeat, it primarly a question of whether we have confidence in ourselves and the dilligence and determination of our people,We can't opt out of the future.' Sean Lemass (1965)
Looking forward to this.
I think TK Whittaker did but Lemass gets credit for listening to him. More's the pity for Ireland that Whittaker was too honest to be a politician and that politics in Ireland, and certainly not Fianna Fáil, doesn't attract people of that calibre if they even exist anymore.
Thanks for that dmc444- watching it now, should be interesting
I had the pleasure of meeting TK Whitaker a while back. He must be in his late 80s by now but he's sharp as a tack.Originally Posted by Lloyd-Apjohn
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I wonder what he would make of Cowen and Ahern?
Just to jump in with my 2 cents.
I absolutely regard Lemass as th best leader this country and my party ever had.
Alot of people forget he was Taoiseach for less than 7 years and my god what a record of achievement.
Lemass was a 1960s man trapped in a Civil war veterans body.
'A defeatist attitude now would surely lead to defeat, it primarly a question of whether we have confidence in ourselves and the dilligence and determination of our people,We can't opt out of the future.' Sean Lemass (1965)
Typical media hype, Ireland was hardly modern when he left office. I'm not knocking the man or his achievements, just pointing out how silly the title is.
If engineers were wrong as often as economists, would anyone fly aeroplanes?
One of his biggest achievements was keeping the country supplied during WW2. After what we learned about the 1960's men, its a bit of an insult to describe someone who was scrupulously honest as one
If engineers were wrong as often as economists, would anyone fly aeroplanes?
I meant interms of his political vision, like seeing that Ireland needed tomove toward free trade and the EEC.
'A defeatist attitude now would surely lead to defeat, it primarly a question of whether we have confidence in ourselves and the dilligence and determination of our people,We can't opt out of the future.' Sean Lemass (1965)
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