Micheál Ó Móráin
| Micheál Ó Moráin | |
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| Minister for Justice | |
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In office 27 March 1968 – 5 May 1970 |
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| Taoiseach | Jack Lynch |
| Preceded by | Brian Lenihan |
| Succeeded by | Desmond O'Malley |
| Minister for the Gaeltacht | |
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In office 11 October 1961 – 26 March 1968 |
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| Taoiseach |
Seán Lemass Jack Lynch |
| Preceded by | Gerald Bartley |
| Succeeded by | Pádraig Faulkner |
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In office 26 June 1957 – 23 July 1959 |
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| Taoiseach | Éamon de Valera |
| Preceded by | Jack Lynch |
| Succeeded by | Gerald Bartley |
| Minister for Lands | |
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In office 23 July 1959 – 26 March 1968 |
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| Taoiseach |
Seán Lemass Jack Lynch |
| Preceded by | Erskine Childers |
| Succeeded by | Pádraig Faulkner |
| Teachta Dála | |
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In office June 1938 – April 1965 |
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| Constituency | Mayo South |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
25 December 1912 Castlebar, Mayo, Ireland |
| Died | 6 May 1983 (aged 70) Castlebar, Mayo, Ireland |
| Nationality | Irish |
| Political party | Fianna Fáil |
| Alma mater | University College Dublin |
| Occupation | Solicitor |
| Religion | Roman Catholic |
Mícheál Ó Móráin or Michael Moran (25 December 1912 – 6 May 1983) was an Irish Fianna Fáil politician, who served in a wide number of Cabinet minister from 1957 until 1970, most notably as Minister for Justice and Minister for the Gaeltacht.
Ó Móráin was born in County Mayo, hailing from a strong Republican family and family members had fought in the Irish War of Independence and in the Irish Civil War on the pro-Treaty side. A solicitor by profession, Ó Móráin was first elected to Dáil Éireann for the Mayo South constituency on his second attempt at the 1938 general election. He remained on the backbenches for a number of years until he was appointed to the cabinet by Éamon de Valera in 1957 as Minister for the Gaeltacht. He was a native Irish speaker. He was appointed Minister for Lands by Taoiseach Seán Lemass, in 1959 and was re-appointed to the Gaeltacht portfolio in 1961. He remained in these two Departments until 1968.
Ireland formally applied for EEC membership in July 1961. Ó Móráin, as Minister for Lands and the Gaeltacht, delivered a widely reported address to the Castlebar Chamber of Commerce in 1962. In the speech he argued that Ireland was "ready to subscribe to the political aims of the EEC" and that Ireland didn't want to be seen as "committed" to its policy of neutrality. In the ensuing controversy, Ó Móráin and Lemass denied that there was any suggestion Ireland might or should abandon neutrality. Outside the country, foreign governments saw this episode as a deliberately provoked debate in order to evaluate the government’s room for maneuver domestically on neutrality.
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