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1949 Douglas Hyde, the non - Catholic founder of the Gaelic League, and the 1st President of Ireland, died, and was buried in the Church of England / Ireland churchyard at Frenchpark in Co. Roscommon in the east of the Connacht Province, and Sean T. O Kelly, replaced him as the new Irish President, when elected by the Irish people, and he was to go on to serve 2 terms in office, as was allowed under the Irish Constitution. - The Irish Supreme Court suspended Habeus Corpus this year.

February 10th: General Elections, were held in the 6 Counties, Artificially Partitioned from the 9 in the Ulster Province, and still under the control of the British Government and the Stormont Government there, and the Ascendancy Official Unionist Party won once again, as they gained 40 seats to the 12 won by the Irish Nationalists, who were supported by the Fine Gael Coalition Government in the Irish Republic. Under the gerrymandering carried out by the Ascendancy Unionist controlled Stormont Government, only the occupier and his wife, were allowed to vote as per their 19th Century provision, which disallowed any other adult members of the more numerous Catholic families from voting.

April - Easter Monday: After the Republic of Ireland was officially declared, by John A. Costello the Taoiseach / Prime Minister of Ireland, a celebration was held, and Eamonn de Valera and the Fianna Fail Party members did not attend.

May 3rd: The British Parliament, under Clement Atlee their Prime Minister, passed the Northern Ireland Act, providing for the 6 Counties Artificially Partitioned from the 9 Counties in the Ulster Province in 1922, just to continue to satisfy the continuation of the Ascendancy Official Unionists in Ireland, which stated that the 6 Counties would never leave Britain, except by the consent of the Stormont Parliament, which they then had enshrined in law at Westminster. This British Imperial Act, was to further ensure that 20% of the population of Ireland still had control over the minority in those 6 Counties in the Ulster Province, whether they agreed or not, where by gerrymandering of the vote they could continue to make laws to ensure the ongoing Ascendancy was retained. Much suffering and misery was to continue to occur because of this blatant decision by those who were still in authority in England, who were not to face up to their responsibility, and the reality of being fair minded, just to hold onto their political affiliations, to ensure their own survival there. The British Imperial Government under their Ireland Act, also came to recognise and declare that Eire / Republic of Ireland was no longer part of their Dominions, and that Ireland was now able to have an Ambassador, not a High Commissioner in England. A subsidy was now also allocated by the British Government Exchequer for Welfare in the 6 Counties, Artificially Partitioned from the 9 Counties in the Ulster Province. - The Irish Government refused to join N.A.T.O. due to the continuation of the Partition of their Country by the British Imperial Government.

The British House of Lords power of veto over British Government Bills in England was further decreased to One Year, from the Two Years previously finally imposed on them in 1911. - The Clann na Gael split again in America, over using the existing funds to carry on the fight for the return of the 6 Counties, Artificially Partitioned from the 9 in the Ulster Province, and still under the control of the British Imperial Government in England and the Ascendancy Official Unionist Stormont Government or whether to build a monument to Sean Russell, which they eventually did. From now on the IRA received little support, and became Marxist, setting their goals on Irish Catholic Civil Rights and Social Reform in the 6 Counties, where natural justice and human rights for the Irish Catholic population there was continuing to be abused.

1950 There was economic co-operation between the Irish Republic, and the Stormont Government in the 6 Counties, and joint schemes for drainage, in the Erne Basin and the Erne Hydro Electric Station at Brookesborough in the Ulster Province, were involved.

The Irish Republic received $300,000,000 in grants and loans under the Marshall Aid Plan.

The IRA was now led by Tony Magan, Patrick Mac Logan, and Thomas Mac Curtain, the son of the Mayor of Cork who was assassinated previously by the British Government's R.I.C / Black & Tans in 1921, who stated that only the British Imperial Government in England was its enemy, and there would be no aggressive action in the Irish Republic, by their IRA members, but only in the north, to try an end the Artificial Partition of the 6 Counties, in the Ulster Province. The IRA was to be eventually passed onto Sean Cronin and Charles Murphy, who were both post war recruits, who would reset the IRA on a new path, with no member of the IRA (who had previously been interned) allowed to join, or who had a criminal record, or showed any sign of lack of discretion or sobriety.

George Bernard Shaw, a vegetarian and teetotaller, who was a World renowned music and drama critic, playwright and Sociologist, who had been born in 1856 in Dublin, and who had wrote many plays, including "Arms and the Man," "Caesar and Cleopatra," "Man and Superman," "Pygmalion," "Back to Methuselah" and "Saint Joan," died at the age 94 this year. He had also assisted in founding the Fabian Society in 1884 AD, and had been involved in political social reform and won the Noble Prize in 1925.

Maurice O Sullivan (1904 - 1950) was drowned this year after he had left Ireland to join the Civic Guard, who had written "Twenty Years A Growing."

Ernest Blythe, who was a non - Catholic Irish Nationalist in the Ulster Province, who had been the Minister for Finance in the first Irish Free State Government under William T. Cosgrave, wrote in The Leader newspaper that, "Partition was inherited from bigotry, and reunion would only come with free consent of the voters in the 6 Artificially Partitioned Counties in the Ulster Province." - Lord Brookeborough was still the Prime Minister there. - Dungiven in Co. Derry in the north - east of the Ulster Province, was still mostly a 90% Catholic Irish Area.

+On to 1951 - 1954

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