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"RAINBOW FARMS" HARNESS HORSES - STANDARDBREDS - PACERS - TROTTERS The Hunter Valley - New South Wales - Australia.
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Irish Heritage Standardbred Yearlings 2003 - 2012 Minis Sweetwaters "Egyptian Kings Smokey (Imp) Shazzally Shazam (Aust) *Mini Weanlings |
1946 - 1948
1946
The population in
Eire
was now up to
2,955,167
and in the City of
Dublin
in the mid - east of the Leinster Province
it was up to
300,000
with 80,000 in
the City of
Cork in Co. Cork in
Southern Munster.
George Gavin Duffy,
the son of Charles Gavin Duffy the previous
Young Irelander who had left Ireland under disgust
with the British Government's treatment of the Irish population and became
the Premier of Victoria in Australia,
now became the
3rd President
of
Ireland.
Sean Mac Bride,
the son of John Mac Bride and
Maude Gonne,
who was a lawyer and the former I.R.A
Chief of Staff, founded the new Republican Party,
Clann na Poblachta Party, due to the lack of
any progress on the
Artificial Border Partition of
Ireland, by Eamonn de Valera and the
Fianna Fail Government.
February:
General Elections
were held again in Ireland -
Eire
were
Sean Mac Bride's
Clann na Poblachta won
10 seats and formed an alliance
with the Conservative
Fine Gael Party
the successor of
William T. Cosgrave's old
Cuman na nGaedhal Party.
March:
The Irish - Americans from the
Clann na Gael
reorganized themselves in
America.
March 9th:
Prominent
IRA
members were arrested by Eamonn de
Valera's Fianna Fail Party Government in Eire but the
IRA
influence was to continue to grow until
1949 and
Sean Mac Caughey
the previous Chief of Staff of the
IRA
in 1941,
died on a
hunger strike in
Maryborough
Prison still fully
committed to the cause of dismantling the British Government's
Artificial Partition of the
6 Counties
from the 9
in the Ulster Province and the
reunification of
Ireland.
April:
The League of Nations
was dissolved and replaced by the
United Nations
Organization. September 10th: A spokesman for the Ministry of Justice in the Fianna Fail Government in Eire - Ireland advised the German detainees still being held that they would be given the right of asylum in Ireland and they moved to Dublin later on were they endeavoured to make a living while Captain Goertz stayed on with the Farrell sisters and Walter Simon returned to Germany.
1947
April 12th:
Eamonn de
Valera's Fianna Fail Government in Eire
now had all the
German agents who were previously released and offered asylum, re -
arrested and taken to
Mountjoy Prison
after giving in to
Allied
pressure to have them extradited for interrogation
and
Captain
Goertz fearing
Allied reprisal wrote personally
to him
to obtain asylum while
Willy Preetz, Ernst Weber - Drohl, Dieter
Gaertner and
Herbert Tributh were
transported to Germany by the
American Air Force.
Werner Unland successfully
fought his deportation while
Captain Herman Goertz and
Guenther Schuetz were given
a deferment.
May: Captain
Hermann Goertz
previously a German
agent married
Una Mackey a nursing sister
he met at Athlone in
Co. Westmeath in the north - west of the
Leinster Province.
May 23rd: Captain Herman
Goertz
took a dose of
Potassium
Cyanide rather than return to
Germany and
John Costello a member of
the Committee later on
inquiring into his death called on the other members not to do anything to
besmirch his memory.
May 26th: Captain Herman
Goertz
was buried in Deans Grange
Protestant Cemetery in Dublin
and amongst the mourners were
Seamus O Donovan,
Anthony Deery, Werner
Unland and
Charles Mac Guinness.
July:
The Sinn Fein Party
now
produced the United Irishmen
newspaper. -
October:
Sean Mac Bride
and
Patrick Kinnane won by -
elections on behalf of the
Clann na
Poblachta, which now loomed as a threat to Eamonn de Valera's
Fianna Fail Party.
James Larkin,
the great Irish
Labour leader, died
this year.
1948
Eammon
de Valera
the leader of the
Fianna Fail
Irish Government was worried by the inroads of
the Clann na Poblachta under the
leadership of
Sean
Mac
Bride so he called an early
General Election
and the catch cry used against the Fianna Fail
Government was, "Put Them Out"
the same one that the Fianna Fail had used against the previous
Fine Gael Government
of William T. Cosgrave to get into power
during 1932. The
Irish people now wanted a
change after
16 years
of the Fianna Fail Party
and
Eammon
De
Valera..
February 4th: Of the 147 seats the Fianna Fail Party under Eammon de Valera returned the largest single party majority with 68 but their first preference votes were down with the Independents gaining 22 seats and the smaller parties combined their votes and the Fianna Fail Party was defeated by the Conservative Fine Gael Party Coalition. The Fine Gael Party with 31 seats, Labour with 19 seats, Clann na Poblachta with 10 seats under Sean Mac Bride together with other smaller parties combined giving them 75 seats. The leader of the Coalition was to be a compromise candidate, John A. Costello, who was a barrister and who had been the Attorney General in 4 previous Fine Gael Governments up to their defeat in 1932. Eamonn de Valera had been nominated at the Taoiseach - Prime Minister but lost out to John A. Costello by 75 votes to 70 who had not even been the leader of Fine Gael but was put forward when Sean Mac Bride would not wear their leader, Richard Mulcahy as the new Prime Minister. John A. Costello who was born in 1891 and who would die in 1976 was to be the one who would finally make Erie into the Republic of Ireland instead of the one who everyone had been expecting to, Eamonn de Valera.
The
Fine Gael Coalition
Government in Eire -
Ireland was now mainly in
2 Factions which
included the
Left Wing - Clann na Poblachta
under
Sean Mac Bride, the son of
John Mac Bride who had been executed by
the British Government after the
Easter Rising of 1916 and
Maude Gonne Mac Bride and the
Clann
na Pobhlachta with
10 seats
had combined with the
Labour
Party to
be known as
National
Labour. Sean Mac Bride
became the Minister for External
Affairs in the
Fine Gael Coalition
Government and their Party
leader until 1951
and
Sean Mac Eoin became the
Minister for Justice until
1951 and released all of the
IRA
prisoners previously held by Eamonn de Valera's Fianna Fail Party.
July: The first issue of the
United Irishmen
newspaper was
put out by
Seamus O Kelly assisted by
the old Republicans and it was
later on taken over by the
IRA
and
Michael Traynor resigned from the paper as he would not be a party
to organizing the youth of Ireland
to use force for the mere sake of using force.
August 6th:
William Norton
now the Tanaiste - Deputy Premier
of the Fine Gael Coalition
Government stated in the
Dail Eireann -
Irish Parliament that it was in the national interest to
abolish the
External Relation Act pertaining
to the British King and he was
supported by
Eammon de Valera
who was still the leader of
the
Fianna Fail Party, now in opposition.
The
Labour Party
had always been against it and
Sean Mac Bride's
Clann na
Poblachta was committed to repeal it.
September:
John A. Costello
the Taoiseach
- Prime Minister of Eire -
Ireland was attending a
Commonwealth Bar Association conference in
Canada were he confirmed that the
report in the papers about the intention to repeal the
External Relations Act was
correct and he was snubbed by the British
Governor General Field
Marshall Earl
Alexander who was a
non - Catholic and the son of an
English Earl who had lands in
Co. Tyrone
in
Mid Ulster Province. This snub was the
final straw for
John A. Costello.
December 21st:
The eventual break was made with
Britain
as Ireland
withdrew
from the British Commonwealth
and the Republic of Ireland Act
was passed to which name
Eamonn de Valera took
exception as he considered the
Republic already existed and that it was actually only the
Repeal of the External Relations Act
so
John A. Costello informed him that the name
Eire - Ireland would remain the
same but now it would be the
Republic
of Ireland.
Count George Noble Plunkett
the father of Joseph Mary Plunkett who
was executed by the
British Government as
a signatory of the Proclamation
in the 1916 Easter Uprising,
died at 97
years of age and was a true
Irish patriot.
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