1965 - 1967 AD

                                                                                                                            "Jack Lynch Elected as Fianna Fail Prime Minister." 

1965 AD In the Irish Republic, Roger Casement's remains were finally returned to Ireland from England, and were placed in the Glasnevin Cemetery near Dublin the capital of Ireland, were he was re - interred in the presence of a great crowd, which included Eamonn de Valera.  

January 14th: In the Irish Republic, the Fianna Fail Government under Sean Lemass was to capitalise on the "Marxist - Communist" factions within the Irish Labour Party in the years ahead up until 1969 to their advantage in the elections. Frank Aiken became the Tanaiste / Treasurer of the Irish Republic until 1969 and Sean Lemass as the Irish Prime Minister / Taoiseach visited Terence O Neillin in secret who was now the leader of the Ascendancy "Official" Unionist Stormont Government in Belfast in Co. Antrim one of the 6 Counties "artificially partitioned" from Ulster Province to discuss "economic" matters of mutual interest for the whole of Ireland. This was to be the "first" meeting, between the Government of Ireland and the British installed "Official" Unionist Ascendancy Government in these 6 Counties "artificially partitioned" from the 9 Counties in the Ulster Province by the British Imperial Coalition Government, since 1921. The Irish Nationalist "elected" M.P.'s for these 6 Counties in Ulster Province now decided to "take up" their places there in the Stormont Parliament for the "first" time, and try and make a difference, although the "bases" were well and truly loaded against them for doing so.

February: Terence O Neill the leader of the Ascendancy "Official" Unionist Stormont Parliament in the 6 Counties in the Ulster Province "artificially partitioned" previously from the 9 Counties in the Ulster Province by the British Imperial Coalition Government now also made the effort and met with Sean Lemass the Prime Minister of the Irish Republic in Dublin.

April:  In the Irish Republic, a "General Election" was held where the Fianna Fail Party under the leadership of Sean Lemass gained an overall "majority" and Jack Lynch now became his Minister for Finance, while the "Opposition" Fine Gael Party was able to gain a further 3 seats under their leader James Dillon who then "resigned," to be replaced by Liam Cosgrave, the son of William T. Cosgrave who had been the actual "first" Prime Minister / Taoiseach of Irish Free State after the British Imperial Coalition Government's withdrawal from 26 of the 32 Counties of Ireland. 

August: In the Irish Republic, with a British Labour Government now in power in Britain, under Harold Wilson, and with bruised "Conservative Ascendancy" egos now long gone, and as a sign of further normal relations with Britain, a British Government warship was now berthed at Waterford in Co. Waterford in the south - east of the Munster Province while paying a visit.

December 14th: Another" positive sign" occurred when the Anglo - Irish Free Trade Agreement was signed in London by Charles Haughey from the Fianna Fail Irish Government.

     Francis Mac Manus (1909 - 1965) the novelist, died this year.

1966 AD The Irish Republic population was now at 2,884,002 and the population in the 6 Counties "artificially partitioned" from the 9 Counties in the Ulster Province was now at 1,484,775, which was the first increase in the population, which was up by 62,000.

      Flann O Brien / Brian O Nolan (1911 - 1966) who grew up at Tullamore in Co. Offaly in the north - west of Southern Leinster, was to die this year.  

February: In the Irish Republic, the "Anti - Treaty I.R.A" members became "active" again when a telephone exchange was "bombed" in Co. Kilkenny in the south - west of Southern Leinster.

February: Terence O Neill the leader of the Ascendancy "Official" Unionist Stormont Government in the 6 Counties "artificially partitioned" Counties from the 9 Counties in the Ulster Province, met with Sean Lemass the Irish Prime Minister again in Dublin.

    In the 6 Counties "artificially partitioned" from the 9 Counties in the Ulster Province still under the control of the British Government and the Ascendancy "Official" Unionist Government, the Rev. Ian Paisley the hard - line religious extremist, who was also the leader of his own church the "Free Presbyterian Church," founded the non - Catholic "Telegraph" newspaper and "denounced" the Anglican Archbishop of Canterbury for meeting with the Pope and he was also to be "convicted" again of an offence and "imprisoned" after he had pelted Terence O Neill the leader of the "Official" Unionist Government's car with "snow balls" for talking to Jack Lynch the Minister of Finance in the Irish Republic. The reformed Unionist Volunteer Force / U.V.F., set up originally against Irish Home Rule in 1920, "46" years previously now made a further return to the scene, declaring war on the "Anti - Treaty I.R.A" although it was by now "inactive," and because of their continuing "siege mentality" they introduced "sabotage and assassination" and would go on to be the second largest "sectarian divisive" organization in these 6 Counties in Ulster Province. At this stage it was their intention to try and "disrupt" any further talks between Terence O Neill the "Official" Unionist leader of these 6 Counties in Ulster Province and Jack Lynch from the Irish Republic, and after they were to also carry out 3 "sectarian murders," Terence O Neill then "outlawed" them and placed some of their leaders in prison.        

March: In the Irish Republic, the "Anti - Treaty I.R.A" were now "active" again, detonating Nelson's Pillar in Dublin, which had been erected in 1808 AD after the "Battle of Trafalgar" to represent continuing British Imperial Empire power in Ireland.

April: In the Irish Republic, this was the celebration year for the 50th Anniversary of the 1916 Irish Easter Rising against the British Imperial Empire in Dublin, that had led on to Irish Independence in 26 of the 32 Counties in Ireland from the 750 years of repression and oppression by successive English authorities and their British Imperial Governments.

     In the Irish Republic, the "Opposition" Fine Gael Party put up Thomas O Higgins, the nephew of Kevin O Higgins who had been "assassinated" in 1927, to be their choice as the new President of Ireland against the now 84 year old Eamonn de Valera who never the less won the position with 1,000,000 votes with a 20,000 vote majority.

    Paddy - the Cope Gallagher, died this year, aged 92, in Co. Donegal in the north - west of the Ulster Province in the Irish Republic, were he had previously made a contribution by establishing a "Co - operative."

   The Republican Clubs had grown stronger and Tomas Mac Giolla who was now the President of the "political" Sinn Fein Party pledged to try and win a political "majority" in the Dail Eireann / Irish Parliament within 5 years.

April: In the 6 Counties "artificially partitioned" from the 9 Counties in the Ulster Province still under the control of the British Government and the Ascendancy "Official" Unionist Government, Eddie Mac Ateer the leader of the "political" Irish Nationalists who were now sitting in their seats in the Stormont Parliament, after they had been encouraged to join in by the "talks" that were now occurring between the 2 leaders of the previous British Imperial Coalition Government's "artificially divided" Ireland and the Central Housing Authority and reorganization of Local Government, had also been begun as another "positive" step. Frank Mac Manus became the political Republican Unity Party M.P. for Co. Fermanagh and South Tyrone in two of these 6 Counties as it was now the 50th Anniversary of the 1916 Irish Easter Uprising against the British Imperial Empire in Dublin and the Ascendancy "Official" Unionist Stormont Government were expecting "trouble" and they closed the railway to Dublin for 3 days at the "artificial border" and put their "B" Special police on alert, but nothing happened. Meanwhile there was another "positive" step when Terence O Neill the "Official" Unionist  Prime Minister of these 6 Counties allowed the celebration in these 6 Counties in Ulster Province to commemorate it, also take place.

May: In the 6 Counties "artificially partitioned" from the 9 Counties in the Ulster Province still under the control of the British Government and the Ascendancy "Official" Unionist Government, in "opposition" to all of the positive "goodwill" that was now occurring, the Unionist Volunteer Force / U.V.F,  that had been originally set up against Irish Home Rule and ceased to exist in 1920, but had by now been "assumed" by a new group with their own agenda who had recently took up that name also, and declared "war" on the defunct "Anti - Treaty I.R.A" who were at this time still "inactive." The lert it be known that they would "execute" any "Anti - Treaty I.R.A" member that they found, and to show their continuing indiscriminating "siege mentality" and intention they began to carry out "sectarian murders" on the Irish Catholic population, all of whom were not in any way involved with the defunct "Anti -Treaty I.R.A" anyway and a "petrol bomb" was also thrown into an Irish Catholic bar on the Shankhill Road in Belfast, which actually caused "burns" to a non - Catholic woman who lived next door.      

June: In the 6 Counties "artificially partitioned" from the 9 Counties in the Ulster Province still under the control of the British Government and the "Official" Unionist Ascendancy Government, the Rev. Ian Paisley, the hard - line religious extremist, led his fanatical followers to the genuine Presbyterian General Assembly being conducted in the Ulster Province and created "riots" there.

    Gerry Fitt who was the Irish Westminster Labour M.P. for West Belfast in the Ulster Province was made a "Life Peer" by the British Labour Government and "lost" his seat to the young rising star, Gerry Adams who was to become the leader of the "political" Provisional Sinn Fein Party, which was to make a great difference in the lives of the people in these 6 Counties and "civil affairs" in general in the north in the future through "democratic" means..  

August: In the 6 Counties "artificially partitioned" from the 9 Counties in the Ulster Province still under the control of the British Government and the "Official" Unionist Ascendancy Government, Kevin Agnew, a solicitor and an Irish Republican from Derry in Co. Derry in the north - west of the Ulster Province, called a meeting of "civil rights activists" there, and the "Civil Rights Movement" was on its way in these 6 Counties.

September: In the Irish Republic, Sean Lemass, who was now 66 years of age "resigned" as the Taoiseach / Prime Minister, and was "replaced" by Jack Lynch who also followed on from his previous approach to having across the "artificial border" talks with the "Official" Unionist Stormont Ascendancy Government in these 6 Counties in the Ulster Province, and George Colley who he had "defeated" for the same position by 59 votes to 19  became his Minister for Industry & Commerce.

November: In the 6 Counties "artificially partitioned" from the 9 Counties in the Ulster Province still under the control of the British Government and the "Official" Unionist Ascendancy Government, a Public Meeting was held in Maghera / Machaire Ratha / The Plain of the Ring Forts were Cathal Goulding who was now the "Official Anti - Treaty I.R.A" leader attended as an "observer," and he pledged the "Official Anti - Treaty I,R.A's" support for the Civil Rights Movement in the north, and despite his personal attitude of "socialist reform" and trying to work within the system, not all of the "Official Anti - Treaty I.R.A" members were in agreement with him.

December: In the 6 Counties "artificially partitioned" from the 9 Counties in the Ulster Province still under the control of the British Government and the "Official" Unionist Ascendancy Government, the National Democratic Party for "Civil Rights" was now begun to try and bring in "reform" for all of the population in these 6 Counties in Ulster Province.

1967 AD In the Irish Republic, Tourism was a growing industry, as the receipts for the Irish Republic grew to $160,000,000.  

    Butler, who was now the 6th Marquis of Ormonde presented the Kilkenny Castle in Co. Kilkenny / Ossory in the south - west of Southern Leinster and part of the grounds, to the people of the Irish Republic. 

    A funeral was held in Dublin for the remains of Dunne and O Sullivan, which had by now also been "returned" from England, where they had been "executed" there also by the British Imperial Coalition Government for the "killing" of the British Military commander, Sir Henry Wilson on June 22nd; 1922. 

       Cathal Goulding, the leader of the "Official Anti - Treaty I.R.A," had previously spent 8 years in prison in England for carrying out a raid there, and while there he had become associated with Roy Johnston who introduced him to "Socialism," and during the "Anti - Treaty I.R.A" service this year at the grave of Theobold Wolfe Tone the founder of Irish Republicanism, in Bodenstown, he stated that they should now seek "social and economic" goals and give up "physical violence" as at this time Socialism was becoming more predominant in the "Anti - Treaty I.R.A" ranks, and the Clann na Gael / The Organization in America was also "against" any further use of "violence" in Ireland.

      Liam Cosgrave, the leader of the political "Opposition" Fine Gael Party in the Irish Republic, would remain in that position until 1969 and Garret Fitz Gerald from Dublin, who was another to become a future Irish Prime Minister, was now a Senator and the T.D. for East Dublin.

     The newly elected British Labour Government in England under Harold Wilson decided to finally revise the "Anglo - Irish Free Trade Agreement."

     Ireland was "vetoed" for membership of the E.E.C / European Economic Community again, along with Britain, after a similar experience previously in 1963.

January: In the 6 Counties "artificially partitioned" from the 9 Counties in the Ulster Province still under the control of the British Government and the "Official" Unionist Ascendancy Government, the University students from the "People's Democracy Association" held a Civil Rights march, but were "attacked" by a Unionist mob with sticks and clubs, who were under the control of the Rev. Ian Paisley the hard - line religious extremist, who was the leader of the "Free Presbyterian Church" group there.

     In the 6 Counties "artificially partitioned" from the 9 Counties in the Ulster Province that were still under the control of the British Government and the "Official" Unionist Stormont Ascendancy Government, the Civil Rights Association / N.I.C.R.A. had been founded at Maghera in Co. Derry by a combined body of all the groups seeking normal  Civil Rights in these 6 Counties made up of Irish Catholics and non - Catholics who had aims for; a single non transferable "vote," re - rawing of "electoral boundaries," fairer allocation of public housing, "anti - discrimination laws," a Government Ombudsman for citizen's complaints, "repeal" of the Special Powers Act , and abandonment of the "B" Special police. They also took up the song of the Civil Rights in America of, "We shall overcome."

      Due to the continuing "blatant gerrymandering," that was still occurring in these 6 Counties in the Ulster Province, only 694,483 persons had the "right to vote" in the elections there, and in the Co. Fermanagh elections, for the 3 seats of Enniskillen, Lis na Skea and South Co. Fermanagh for the Stormont Parliament and while there where 29,400 Irish Catholics eligible there and 23,500 Unionist voters, the "Official" Unionists due to the "loaded" bases once again gained 2 of the seats and the Irish Nationalists only 1.  (It was recorded that only 4% of the Irish Catholics in the north, at this time, intended to vote Unionist.) In the Local Government elections, also due to the blatant gerrymandering, the "Official" Unionists gained 26 seats and the Irish Nationalists only 6, while in Derry where there were 36,049 Catholic Irish and only 17,695 Unionists voters the "Official" Unionist candidates were still able to win the election. In the Local elections there where only 9,235 Unionist voters, but due to the same "gerrymandering," they were still able to take 12 of the seats as against the greater number of 14,325 Catholic Irish voters who could win only 8.

December 11th: Jack Lynch the Prime Minister / Taoiseach of the Irish Republic had another meeting with Terence O Neill the Ascendancy "Official" Unionist Stormont leader, this time at the Stormont Parliament in Belfast in Co. Antrim in the north - east of the Ulster Province.

   In the 6 Counties "artificially partitioned" from the 9 Counties in the Ulster Province still under the control of the British Government and the "Official" Unionist Ascendancy Government, because of the positive vibes being received now the Irish Nationalist Party members had entered the Stormont Parliament, but the "political" Sinn Fein Party still continued their "boycott" there, and also that of the Dail Eireann / Irish Parliament in the Irish Republic, along with the British Westminster Parliament and Sean Mac Caughey decided to "resign" as the Vice - President of the "political" Sinn Fein Party and started an Irish Union movement to try and bring about the re - unification of the 32 Counties of Ireland.

     The Clann na Eireann / Family of Ireland was now to be set up in England to try to "combine" all of the Irish Associations also over there whho were working for the same end the reunification of Ireland..

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