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1933 January 2nd: Eamonn de Valera the Taoiseach / leader of the Irish Free State (26 of the 32 Counties of Ireland) dissolved the Irish Parliament without discussing it with any one else and notified all of his Ministers, one by one, of his decision while the abolition of the Oath to the British King was still held up in the Senate, which was still under the control of the Opposition. In the following General Election the Fianna Fail Party was to win again, but this time with an overall majority in it's own right and became independent of the Irish Labour Party.

February 18th: The anti - Treaty IRA were now beginning to also fall out with Eamonn de Valera and the new Fianna Fail Party Government in the Irish Free State.

February 22nd: Eoin O Duffy the Head of the Garda (Irish Police) in the Irish Free State who was the Commissioner of Police, was dismissed by Eamonn de Valera the Taoiseach / leader of the Fianna Fail Government, and was replaced with Colonel Broy.

April: The anti - Treaty IRA leaders now decided the time was now right to push on with their Socialist agenda and they came out for public ownership over the production, distribution and control of all Irish goods.

May: The Irish Free State Bill to remove the Oath to the British Crown was this month passed in the Dail Eireann/- Irish Assembly.

July 20th: Eoin O Duffy the previous Head of the Garda (Irish Police) now became the leader of the Irish National Guards, an association that was previously formed from the Irish Army Comrades Association, sometimes also known as the Blue Shirts, who were originally set up to protect freedom of speech in Ireland, especially against the anti - Treaty IRA auxiliary police, and they also wanted a United Ireland of the 32 Counties, abolition of strikes and lock outs, and the suppression of Communism.

August 13th: Eoin O Duffy who was now the new leader of the Irish National Guards / Blue Shirts planned a march by them to revive the memory of the laying of the wreaths on Kevin O Higgins and Michael Collins graves, and Eamonn de Valera displaying his personal temperament came out and banned the parade. He then also hastily set up the Special Branch, and revived the public safety measures of the previous Cuman na nGaedhal Government under William T. Cosgrave, which he had previously also repealed. He then also bought back the Military Tribunal also previously set up by William T. Cosgrave, which he had also recently repealed and declared the Irish National Guard an illegal organization, so in response Eoin O Duffy called off the parade to commemorate the contribution of Kevin O Higgins and Michael Collins and changed the name of the Irish National Guards to the Young Ireland Association.

September 8th: All the parties now in opposition to Eamonn De Valera's Fianna Fail Government, in the Irish Free State, which included the Cumann na nGaedheal Party, the Centre Party / Farmers, and the National Guard / Blue Shirts under Eoin O Duffy, now combined to become a political party to be known as the Fine Gael Party (The Tribe of the Gaels) and Eoin O Duffy became it's 1st President, with William T. Cosgrave the vice - President up until 1935. - Meanwhile, Eamonn de Valera the leader of the Fianna Fail Party who were the Irish Free State Government, whose original platform had been for a United Ireland / Irish Republic had still given no consideration to the problem of the Artificial Partition of Ireland or the 6 Counties Partitioned from the 9 Counties in the Ulster Province during his period so far in office.

October: Sectarian and ethnic riots occurred once again in Belfast in Co. Antrim in the north - east of the Ulster Province, in the 6 Counties Artificially Partitioned by the British Government from the other 26 Counties in Ireland, which were still under the control of the British Government and the Official Unionist Stormont Government, when the R.U.C / Royal Official Unionist Constabulary baton charged the Irish Catholics there.

November: A Bill was passed in the Irish Free State Parliament / Dail Erenn to remove the British Governor General's position giving his functions to the Irish Executive Council of recommending Money Bills, and withholding assent to Bills, and they also terminated the Right of Appeal to the British Privy Council in London.

November 9th: Eamonn de Valera as the leader of the Fianna Fail Party Government in the Irish Free State (26 Counties of the 32 Counties of Ireland) could not understand the continuing attitude of the anti - Treaty IRA, as he had previously abolished the Oath to the British Crown and they now both began to openly disagree, and the militant IRA had begun drilling again publicly.

December 8th: The Irish National Guards, in the Irish Free State, under the leadership of Eoin O Duffy, which had recently undergone a name change to the Young Ireland Association was still parading also, and were also still trying to protect the political Opposition speakers, but it too was also banned because of their constant clashes with the disruptive members of the militant IRA.

December 14th: Eoin O Duffy in the Irish Free State changed the name of the Young Ireland Association once again into the Irish League of Youth, to get around the ban with the stated aims of (1) protection of free speech, (2) to resist the payment of Land Annuities to the Government and (3) withholding of local rates.

George Moore (1852 - 1933) who had been against British Imperialism and their Boer War and was from Loch Carra in Co. Mayo in the west of the Connacht Province and who was also involved in the Gaelic revival, died this year.

In the 6 Counties Artificially Partitioned from the 9 in the Ulster Province still controlled by the British Government and the Ascendancy Official Unionist Party, Sir Basil Brooke stated that the Irish Catholics there are disloyal and should not be employed and he introduced the Special Constables Act to bring in their own non - Catholic "B" Special Police Force. Hugh Mac Ateer / Mheic an tSasanaigh now joined the anti - Treaty IRA and Eamonn de Valera who was the Taoiseach / leader of the Irish Free State was re - elected for the seat there for South Co. Down.

In Geevagh in Co. Sligo in the north - west of the Connacht Province this year, the waters of Loch na Suil disappeared through Balor's Eye as it does every 100 years.

+On to 1934 - 1935

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