No, until the 1960s Connacht was haemorrhaging young people like water through a sieve, the place was destroyed. Where my father grew up, he was the last person left from his school year, which everyone left at 14, only a year later. Then he left too. That was Connacht. There was no hope.Originally Posted by pfkf1
Perhaps, but it may have benefitted a city like Galway, and it may have helped the province to have local Government.
right so despite your pointing out the current political system wrecked the place , you also oppose an alternative to that system ? Is it not possible if things had been done differently connacht might have been better off ? would connacht people being directly empowered to look after connacht not have been better for connacht ?
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No, Leinster and Munster would have possibly worked, but Connacht couldn't, it had neither the numbers of people, the resources, nor the infrastructure. The idea that it could have been economically self-sufficient at any time after independence until recently is simply unrealistic. It would have had to have been heavily subsidised. I speak as someone whose family are all from Connacht and Donegal, if I thought even today that such a system would redress the massive inequality of regional fortunes since the boom then I would support it.
Radical for its time, he saw the absolute need for outside investment and competition for the new state to survive. The polar opposite of his nemesis De Valera. We all know the result and how long it took to roll back.
Sorry for going off topic, but I'd like to ask a question concerning Michael Collins that hardly deserves a new thread.
Personal preference and all that aside, would it be correct to say that Collins is more popular than de Valera? I read Diarmaid Ferriter's book on Dev, and if I remember correctly he claimed that most historians are more sympathetic to Mick. Is it the same with the population in general?
Odd question I guess, but I'm not Irish and I don't know where else to get this information...
It's a very difficult question to answer because no one has ever done a poll on it. From general life I would say yes Collins is more popular then Dev. However it's impossible to know for sure.
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Well Dev has had both hatched-jobs and hand-jobs of biographys done on him,
I can't think of anyone who has set out to paint Collins with an emphasis on his faults?
though it is probably worth bearing in mind that Collins died young and possibly at his best (ala Monroe, Dean - not a great comparison but you get the point) whilst Dev lasted another 50 years, during which time he did a lot of good and a lot of bad, whilst we will never know what Collins would have achieved (or not) and so for this i think that he's given a more romantic popular place in Irish History than most and certainly DevIt's a very difficult question to answer because no one has ever done a poll on it. From general life I would say yes Collins is more popular then Dev. However it's impossible to know for sure.
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He was wrong on that issue. Federalism might have had a necessary role in a United Ireland certainly, but with 2 constituent parts of the federation, rather than 4. We were very poor back then anyway and having more than that would have being wasting precious resources on bureaucracy.
Thats like asking why Jesus was more popular than Hitler.
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