1946 - 1948 AD
" 3rd President of Ireland - Fine Gael Coalition Party - Republic of Ireland."
1946 AD
The population in
Eire
was now up to
2,955,167
and in the City of
Dublin
in the mid - east of Southern Leinster
it was up to
300,000
with
80,000 also 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 Imperial 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 Mac Bride,
who was a lawyer and the former
"Anti- Treaty I.R.A"
Chief of Staff, founded the new Republican
"political" party,
the
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
in Ireland.
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
Fine Gael Party
the "political" successor of
William T. Cosgrave's
old
Cuman na nGaedhal Party.
March:
The Irish - Americans from the
Clann na Gael / The Organization
reorganized themselves in
America.
March 9th:
Prominent
"Anti - Treaty IRA"
members were "arrested" by Eamonn de
Valera's Fianna Fail Party Government in
Eire, but the "Anti - Treaty IRA"
influence was to continue to still grow until
1949 and
Sean Mac Caughey
the previous Chief of Staff of the "Anti - Treaty
IRA"
in
1941, "died" on a "hunger strike" in
Maryborough
Prison still fully
committed to the cause of "dismantling" the British Imperial Government's "artificial
partition" of the
6 Counties
from the 9 Counties
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 where they endeavoured to make a "living" with Captain Goertz staying on with the Farrell sisters, while Walter Simon returned to Germany.
1947 AD
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 but
Werner Unland was to
successfully
fight 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 interred in
Deans Grange
non - Catholic Cemetery in
Dublin
and amongst the mourners were
Seamus O Donovan,
Anthony Deery, Werner
Unland and
Charles Mac Guinness.
July: The "political" Sinn Fein Party now produced the United Irishmen newspaper.
Guenther Schuetz
was forced to leave his Irish
wife when he was also taken to
Germany by the
American Air
Force as
the "last" German
agent held in custody.
October:
Sean Mac Bride
and
Patrick Kinnane
won by -
elections on behalf of the
Clann na
Poblachta Party, 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 AD Eammon de Valera the leader of the Fianna Fail Irish Government was worried by the inroads of the Clann na Poblachta Party 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 very same one that the Fianna Fail Party had used against the previous Fine Gael Government of William T. Cosgrave to get into power during 1932 and 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 "combining" their votes and the Fianna Fail Party was "defeated" by a Fine Gael Coalition Party with the Fine Gael Party gaining 31 seats, Labour 19 seats, Clann na Poblachta Party with 10 seats under Sean Mac Bride, together with other smaller parties combined giving them 75 seats. The leader of the Fine Gael Coalition Government was to be a compromise candidate, John A. Costello, who was a barrister who had been the "Attorney General" in 4 previous Fine Gael Governments up to their defeat in 1932. Eamonn de Valera had been nominated to be 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 Party, 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 Eamonn de Valera who everyone had been expecting to.
The
Fine Gael Coalition
Government in Eire /
Ireland was now mainly in
2 Factions which
included the
Left Wing / Clann na Poblachta Party
under
Sean Mac Bride,
the son of
John Mac Bride
who had been executed by
the British Imperial Government after the
1916 Irish Easter Rising
and
Maude Gonne Mac Bride,
who had
10 seats
and had combined with the
Irish Labour
Party to
be known as
National
Labour with Sean Mac Bride
becoming the Minister for External
Affairs
in the
Fine Gael Coalition
Government and the Clan
na Poblachta Party
leader until
1951,
while
Sean Mac Eoin became the
Minister for Justice
until
1951 and released all of the
"Anti - Treaty 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 "Anti - Treaty IRA,"
and
Michael Traynor was
to "resign" from the paper as he would not be a party
to organizing the youth of Ireland
to use "force" for the mere sake of just 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 German British
King,
and he was
supported by
Eammon de Valera
who was still the leader of
the
Fianna Fail Party now in "Opposition,"
while
the
Irish Labour Party
had always been "against" it and
Sean Mac Bride's
Clann na
Poblachta Party was "committed" to repeal it.
September:
John A. Costello
who was now 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
Imperial
Governor General Field
Marshall
Earl
Alexander who was a
non - Catholic and the son of an
English Earl who had
confiscated Estates in
Co. Tyrone
in Central Ulster Province
and this "snub" was to be 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 known "officially" as the
Republic
of Ireland.
Count George Noble Plunkett, the father of Joseph Mary Plunkett who was "executed" by the British Imperial Government as a signatory of the Proclamation in the 1916 Irish Easter Uprising, died at 97 years of age and was a true Irish "patriot."