1925 AD
"Fianna Fail Party"
1925 AD Irish Confirmation of Agreement Act / Artificial Partition Boundary reaffirmed.
Construction was started on the "Ard na Crusha Electricity Power Station" in the Irish Free State.
George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950) who
had assisted in founding the Fabian Society in 1884, and was a successful music
and drama critic, with a passion for "social reform," whose personal fame had begun to spread in
1904, and was heavily involved in "political" activities
in Ireland, also
won the monetary
"Nobel Peace Prize
for
Literature" this year, which he was to
"give away."
March: The "political" Sinn Fein Party held their Convention and Eamonn de Valera tried to convince them all to stand for the "elections" and take up their seats, which they "rejected," so he personally "resigned" from the position he held with them and was no longer involved with the "political" Sinn Fein Party.
March 9th:
In the
Bye -
Elections held on this date
there was a further definite leaning towards the "political"
Sinn Fein
Party when
2
Irish Republicans
"won" seats from the
Irish Free
State Government who were still under the leadership of
William T. Cosgrave and his
"political"
Fine Gael Party, giving
the "political" Sinn Fein Party a total of
48
seats,
but due to their Irish
Republican convictions they still would "not attend" the
Irish Free State
Parliament as they had to take the "Oath of Allegiance" to the
German
British King
to be eligible to take up their seats therin.
The "Anti - Treaty IRA
- Irregular"
members
meanwhile were determined to "severe" their connection of any
further control
from the "illegal"
Emergency Republican Government,
which was previously set up by
Eamonn de Valera,
and
Frank Aiken who took it upon himself to
"resign" as the "illegal"
Emergency Republican Government's
Minister of Defence,
but still
"retained" the position of their Chief of
Staff, and subsequent to "retaining" this position he was nevertheless still able to
"sign" an agreement with
Eamonn de Valera that the
"IRA - Irregulars" were still under the
control of the "unofficial" "Emergency Republican Government"
who were still under the controll of Eamonn De Valera, while
Sean Lemass took over his previous position
in this association as their
Minister for Defence.
April: Sir
James Craig
the Ascendancy
"Official" Unionist
leader
in the
Stormont
Government in the 6 Counties "artificially
partitioned" from the 9
Counties in the
Ulster Province held
"General Elections"
there once again for the
52 seats in their
House of Commons and
32
of the seats
were "won" by the
Ascendancy"Official" Unionists,
with
another
4
seats
were won by "Independent"
Unionists, the
Irish
Nationalists won
10 seats
and the "political" Sinn Fein Party
there in these 6
Counties won only
2. seats, as previously
the Irish Nationalists
had also "refused" to "take up" their seats in
this totally controlled Ascendancy "Official" Unionist Parliament in protest of the
"sham" of a Parliament that it was, but this time it was different as
Joseph Devlin
the
Irish Nationalist
"leader" led his
small
Nationalist Party group "into" the new
"Stormont Parliament" to try and
somehow make a "difference."
The "Anti - Treaty IRA
- Irregulars" were now
also moving completely away from the "political"
Sinn Fein Party
who they believed were still not doing "enough"
to bring about the "re - unification" of the
32
Counties in
Ireland,
and in some attempt at protest they were carrying out non
- violent
"destruction" of British
Imperial
Empire
statues and memorials
situated throughout Ireland.
May 16th:
Eamonn de Valera
was now "out" of any office in the "political"
Sinn Fein Party,
but
he wanted desperately to get "into" the Irish Free State
Parliament,
so he made his next move by founding the
"political" Fianna Fail Party
(Warriors of Destiny) at the La Scala Theatre
in
Dublin
to try and gain his imperative "ambition" now of gaining entrance "into" the
Irish Free State
Parliament.
June 20th:
Maurice Twomey
took over as the editor of the "IRA"
newspaper
An
Phoblacht (The Republic).
November 17th:
The "unofficial"
Emergency Republican Government had been previously set up by
Eamonn de Valera in
"opposition" to the legitimate
"elected"
government of the
Irish Free State,
to keep the momentum of an actual
Irish Republic alive, but at the
"IRA
Convention" a new
Constitution was put forward and
"adopted" by the
members who were now to be "independent" of the "unofficial"
Emergency Republican Government who would no longer have the right of
any
"control " over them, and another
motion was also "introduced" stating that the
"IRA,"
the "political"
Sinn Fein Party
and the Eamonn de Valera's new "political"
Fianna Fail Party
should "unite" for the coming
Irish
Free State elections. A "proviso" was also put in that they were still
"not
to take up" their seats in the
Dail Eireann / Irish Assembly / Irish Free State
Parliament
until they had the "majority" of the members there.
The new
"political"
Fianna Fail Party
/ Warriors of Destiny under the
leadership of
Eamonn de Valera would not agree to this
"amendment," so
Peadar O Donnell
who had
Marxist leanings wanted the
"Anti - Treaty IRA
- Irregulars"
to become purely a "military" group, and be
also
"separated" out from the
"political"
Sinn Fein Party
altogether,
so that it could be more open to straight out "political" discussion.
November 20th: The
"political"
Sinn Fein
Party
held it's
Ard Fheis
(Convention)
were it was decided not to make any "changes" to it's policies to gain
"political"
office, when
Father
Michael
O Flanagan put forward the
"Amendment" of "No
attendance at the Irish Free
State Parliament that was previously
set up by British Government Law,"
which was accepted
by a 5 vote margin of
223 votes to
218,
and in a further effort to
try and "encourage" them to try and "take up" the seats in the
Dail Eireann
/ Irish Assembly
Eamonn de
Valera
put it to
them that the "Oath of Allegiance"
to the German
British King
was really
the only "obstacle" now that was stopping them from entering the
Irish Free State
Parliament.
Because of the "close" vote the "Amendment"
put forward by Father Michael O Flanagan was toaalso show that
"change" was "coming," and eventually bring about the setting up of
3
different bodies, which was to
include the "political"
Saor Eire
Party,
which
was never able to accomplish anything,
the
Republican Congress Party,
which was to further "split" the "Anti - Treaty IRA"
members
in "half," and
the new "political"
Fianna Fail Party under
Eamonn de Valera
who would
eventually "gain" the Government
of
Ireland and also
"disown" his previous allies the "Anti - Treaty
IRA - Irregulars" altogether.
November 21st:
Eamonn de
Valera realising their was to be "no" change of policy in the
"political"
Sinn Fein
Party ranks then made his
next move towards gaining "political" office by
"resigning" from the "political"
Sinn Fein Party
altogether,
which would to allow him to "push on" with his own "political" agenda and his own
"political" Fianna Fail Party /
Warriors of Destiny."
December:
The
"artificial partition" Border Commission
previously set up in regards to the "artificial border" imposed
originally by the
British Imperial Government
on the whole
9 Counties of the
Ulster Province
had basically now
"collapsed," and the
Irish Free State
Government under William T. Cosgrave entered into a
"Tripartite Agreement" of
Dublin,
Belfast
and Britain
for the "artificial partition" boundary
to
remain "unaltered" for the time being in lieu of any liability under
Clause V, which was a financial
arrangement in the original "Anglo
-
Irish Treaty." They also agreed at the same time to
"abolish"the
British
Government's proposed
Council of Ireland
under the
Government of Ireland Act 1920,
which was to have acted in an "advisory" capacity in regards to
"administration"
problems applicable to both sides of the "artificial border" only if the
2
British Government's
"artificially partitioned" Parliaments had agreed to the proposition.
The "rift" in the
Irish Free
State of
26 Counties
now became greater between all of the interested parties
there, and Eamonn de Valera
seeking once again a "political" opportunity came out
"stronger" against the
Irish Free State
Government
who were still under the leadership of William T. Cosgrave
andhis "political" Cuman na Gael Party, for accepting the "artificial
border partition," as this action had removed any chance at that stage of
keeping the "whole"
of the 32 Counties of Ireland
involved and united.
December 7th: Eamonn de Valera invited all of the fully committed Irish Republican Deputies / T.D's who had been "elected" to the Irish Free State Parliament in Dublin to meet at the Shelbourne Hotel, to attend a conference instigated by the Irish Labour Party, with the intention of discussing the "artificial partition border" results, and the Labour leaders also tried to get the elected "political" Sinn Fein Party members to enter the Irish Parliament at Leinster House, but they still "refused" to take up their seats due to the "Oath of Allegiance" to the German British King.
The Irish Free State Parliament was also holding a "meeting" this very same day for the "2nd Reading" of the Border Partition Bill, so the Irish Republicans met instead at the Rotunda in Dublin, from were they issued a statement of "opposition" to the "artificial border partition" result, and some members of the Irish Free State Government were to also "break away" from the Free State Government over their previous "acceptance" of the "artificial border partition" and went on to form another "political" body known as the Clann Eireann. (Family of Ireland.)Home Page Return to Celtic Heritage On to 1926 - 1927 AD