Terence O'Neill Meeting Local Residents

Terence O'Neill Meeting Local Residents

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Location

Belfast

Year

1965

Date

1965

Length

08min 37sec

Audio

sound

Format

colour

Source

Digitised as part of the UTV Archive Partnership Project (ITV, Northern Ireland Screen and PRONI)

Courtesy

Department for Communities, ITV, Public Record Office of Northern Ireland

Rights Holder

ITV

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Description

Clip from archive compilation programme 'Understanding Northern Ireland'.

Features Terence O'Neill and his wife, meeting local residents on a snowy day in Belfast, in the lead up to the 1965 election. Also seen is a crowd booing along with shouts of "go home" to civil rights demonstrators who are campaigning for 'one man, one vote'.

Notes

When Northern Ireland was established in 1921, it adopted the same political system then in place for the Westminster Parliament and British local government. However, the Parliament of Northern Ireland did not follow Westminster in changes to the franchise from 1945.

As a result, into the 1960s, plural voting was still allowed not only for local government (as it was for local government in Great Britain) but also for the Parliament of Northern Ireland. This meant that in local council elections (as in Great Britain) ratepayers and their spouses, whether renting or owning the property, could vote while company directors had an extra vote by virtue of their company's status. However, unlike the situation in Great Britain, non-ratepayers did not have a vote in local government elections. 

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A UTV Production

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