Prime Minister Terence O’Neill delivers a speech on the potential of industry in Northern Ireland. He is speaking at the opening of the new Gallahers tobacco factory in Belfast. The editing of the speech is slightly piecemeal but gives us an impression of the efforts and hopes that went into this investment. 

Thomas Gallaher founded his tobacco factory in Derry in 1857. It relocated to Belfast in 1881. By the early 1900s, Gallahers was the largest tobacco factory in the world. Among other brands, it produced Park Drive, Benson & Hedges and Silk Cut cigarettes. By 1965, Gallahers employed 15,000 people but as cigarette sales began to decline, this dwindled to 800 by the time the factory closed in 1988. 

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