Irish Shipping

The Oxford Companion to Irish History | 2007 | 643 words | Copyright

Irish Shipping was set up in 1941 as a semi‐state enterprise (see state enterprise) by Sean Lemass, minister for supplies, in response to the wartime ban on British merchant ships carrying goods to Ireland. This was a necessary crisis measure as British ships had carried 95 per cent of Irish imports. Nine ships, mostly old, were bought and six chartered. After the war, this nucleus was expanded into a national merchant fleet. Due to government pressure, Irish Shipping Ltd. in the 1970s became fatally embroiled in loss‐making bulk carrier and ferry ventures. It was placed into liquidation in November 1984.

Peter Collins

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