1934 - 1935 AD

                                                                                                                                         "Irish Republican Congress Party."

1934 AD February 20th: In the Irish Free State (26 Counties of the 32 Counties of Ireland), the outright Fianna Fail Party Government under the leadership of Eamonn de Valera, set up the Irish Volunteer "Reserve Force," to try and encourage more militant members of the "Anti - Treaty IRA" to join the Reserve Force.

February 11th: In the Irish Free State, Mrs. Mac Gorry was "killed" and two of her children received "serious injuries," when the "Anti - Treaty IRA" were to carry out a "reprisal" act against her "husband."

March 17th - 18th: The "Anti - Treaty IRA" in the Irish Free State held a Convention, and tried to introduce a "new political" party to rival Eamonn de Valera's Fianna Fail Party, but were "defeated" by the vote of Maurice Twomey their Chief of Staff, although they were supported by Sean Mac Bride as their Adjutant General and Sean Russell as their Minister of Munitions who was frightened now of the strong "Socialist" Left Wing element within the "Anti - Treaty IRA" and a further "split" then occurred in the ranks of the "Anti - Treaty IRA."

April 8th: In the Irish Free State, the Irish Republican Congress Party was now "formed" for the "overthrow" of all existing political and economic machinery, and the actual "Anti - Treaty IRA" conservative element "forbid" any of it's members to join it, and to this end they also "expelled" Peadar O Donnell, Michael Price, Gilmore and Frank Ryan who was the "editor" of An Phoblacht (The Republic) newspaper, who then became their leader, and many of the "Anti - Treaty IRA" members now went with them.

April 23 rd: In the Irish Free State, the newly formed "political" Irish Republican Congress Party, now held a public meeting at Rathfarnham in Dublin, under their chairman Liam Kelly, and they were to also produce their own newspaper of the same name.     

July: In the Irish Free State, the "political" Fianna Fail Party, still under the leadership of Eamonn de Valera, won the "General Election" in the Irish Free State "again" easily, and Joseph P. Walshe was to continue to act as their Head of External Affairs.    

September 21st: The original "Blue Shirts" formed to assist the "Opposition" in the Irish Free State from physical attacks by the "Anti - Treaty IRA," and who were previously under the leadership of Eoin O Duffy, had begun to also "split," and were by now disintegrating rapidly, and the "Anti - Treaty IRA" members who were still against the "Anglo - Irish Treaty" and the "artificial partition" of Ireland, were destroying British made goods, and were also continuing to "harass" the meetings that were held by any of the Irish population who supported the "Anglo - Irish Treaty" in the Irish Free State. Eoin O Duffy, was now replaced by William T. Cosgrave as the President of the "Political" Fine Gael Party, and the reorganized "Irish League of Youth" also amended it's Constitution to remove Eoin O Duffy's previous hold on power over them.

    A Harvard Expedition from America discovered ancient flint tools 4,000 - 5,000 year old at Glenarm near Cloney in Co. Antrim in the north - east of the Ulster Province, and also hearths and flint implements from 2000 B.C. at New Ferry in Co. Antrim on the River Bann.  

   The Irish Hospital's Sweepstakes was also prospering in America. 

       In the 6 Counties "artificially partitioned" from the 9 Counties in the Ulster Province, who were still under the control of the British Imperial National Coalition Government and the Ascendancy "Official" Unionist Party, Sir Basil Brooke the Minister for Agriculture there, who was to become their Prime Minister later on from 1944 to 1963 stated, "I recommend those people who are Loyalist not to employ Irish Catholics, 95% of whom are disloyal" and once again "democracy" was done away with there, and the British National Coalition Government still did nothing about it, when in the Derry Council Borough elections, their "gerrymandering" activities became very evident. Although the population there was composed of 60% Irish Catholics, still the "Official" Unionists won 60% of the seats as the "householder and his wife, "were given the right to "vote," but not the adult children, due to the larger number of individuals who were in the Irish Catholic families.

     In these 6 Counties in the Ulster Province, Joseph Devlin the minority Irish "Opposition" leader of the Irish Nationalist M.P.s there who was also the "founder" of the Ancient Order of Hibernians (The Molly Mac Guires), which was a Catholic Fraternity originally set up to countermand the strong influence of the "Orange Order" there, died this year.

1935 AD In the Irish Free State (26 Counties of the 32 Counties of Ireland) the "Anti - Treaty IRA" leaders now ordered their country "Anti - Treaty militant IRA" units to "interfere" with the Irish Republican Congress Party marchers also, as they had "broken away" from their more militant group, and were now more "Socialist" orientated.  

March: In Dublin in the Irish Free State, the "Tram and Bus" workers went on strike.

March 22nd The "Anti - Treaty IRA" came out declaring for the plight of the workers in the Irish Free State.

March 26th: Eamonn de Valera, the leader of the Fianna Fail Government, had 44 of the "Anti - Treaty IRA" and the "political" Irish Republican Congress Party members "arrested," including Peader O Donnell, and  after interrogating them they "released" them.

      In the 6 Counties "artificially partitioned" from the 9 Counties in the Ulster Province, by the British Imperial Government, and now controlled by the Ascendancy "Official" Unionist Party, once again, "sectarian and ethnic" riots occurred in Belfast in Co. Antrim in the north - east of Ulster Province, where 5 more people out of the population there were "killed" and the extent of the "prejudice," that was still occurring there was on display once again for all to see, when of the 346 people who were "interned" in prison there "without trial," 345 were Irish Catholics, and the only response of the British Imperial Coalition Government to this was to send over "extra funds" to the Ascendancy "Official" Unionists to continue to support their overall position.

    Sir Edward Carson, the original Ascendancy "Official" Unionist leader, who was originally from Dublin, died. 

   In the 6 Counties "artificially partitioned" from the 9 Counties in the Ulster Province the "Anti - Treaty IRA" there raided the armoury at Campbell Army College to gain arms, but were driven off by the Ascendancy "Official" Unionist Government's R.U.C police during a gun battle.

April 5th: Sean Russell the "Anti - Treaty IRA" leader, was to meet with Eamonn de Valera the Taoiseach of the Irish Free State Fianna Fail Government, in an endeavour to try and re - introduce co - operation with the "Anti - Treaty IRA," who he wanted to "give up" their arms and cease drilling in public and Sean Russell said that he would "co - operate" if Eamonn de Valera was to get on with declaring Ireland, an Irish Republic within 5 years, but Eamonn de Valera stated that he wouldn't agree to do so and ironically told him that, "You want it both ways."

April 24th - 29th: The "Military Tribunal" that now operated in the Irish Free State, under the leadership of Eamonn de Valera and the Fianna Fail Party Government, this time handed out "jail sentences" to many of those from the " Anti - Treaty IRA" and the "political" Irish Republican Congress Party who were all "Anti - Treaty" and who he had previously arrested and held only for interrogation.  

May 29th: Eamonn de Valera, the Taoiseach of the Irish Free State, in the Fianna Fail Government, now publicly declared that, "Ireland would not be permitted as a base for any attacks carried out on Britain."

July:  4 men were finally "charged" with Mrs. Mac Gory's previous "killing" during a reprisal attack on her husband, by the "Anti - Treaty IRA," but they were all "acquitted," and the leaders of all the prominent Irish - American Associations, called on the Fianna Fail Party Government under Eamonn de Valera, and the members of the militant "Anti - Treaty IRA" under the leadership of Sean Russell, to combine their efforts to concentrate on bringing about a United Irish Republic of the 32 Counties.

    At Creevy - Keel in Co. Sligo in the north - west of the Connacht Province, the 4,000 year old Neolithic Tomb (Court Cairn) was explored by the Harvard University of America group, who also excavated stone axes, flints and tools there.

December: O Hara - Harte was sent to Ireland, by Joseph Mac Garritty of the Clann na Gael / The Organization in America, to arrange "peace" between Eamonn de Valera and the "Anti - Treaty IRA" who were under the leadership of Sean Russell, but Eamonn de Valera told him that he would not enter into any further negotiations with him on the matter. 

      A.E. / George Russell who was born in 1867 who had been a key figure in the Gaelic revival, died this year.      

      William Thomas Cosgrave the previous "first" Taoiseach (leader) of the Irish Free State in Ireland was now to remain the leader of the "Opposition" Fine Gael Party in the Irish Free State (26 Counties of the 32 Counties of Ireland) until 1944.

     Stanley Baldwin was in once again as the new British Imperial National Coalition Prime Minister until 1937 in England taking over from the Labour Party's James Ramsay Mac Donald.

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