1934 - 1935 AD

February 20th: In the Irish Free State (26 Counties of the 32 Counties of Ireland), the Fianna Fail Party Government under the leadership of Eamonn de Valera, set up the Irish Volunteer Reserve Force, to try and draw more of their members away from the militant anti - Treaty IRA.

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 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 Adjutant General and Sean Russell as their Minister of Munitions who was frightened now of the Left Wing element within the IRA. (A further split now also 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 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 the editor of An Phoblacht (The Republic) newspaper, who became their leader, and many of the anti - Treaty IRA members now went with them.

April 23 rd: In the Irish Free State, the Irish Republican Congress, 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 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 who were previously under the leadership of Eoin O Duffy, had begun to also split up, and were by now disintegrating rapidly, and the anti - Treaty IRA members who were still against the Anglo - Irish Treaty because of the artificial dissection of Ireland, were destroying British made goods, and were also continuing to harass the meetings that were held by any of the Irish who supported the Treaty in the Irish Free State. Eoin O Duffy, was now replaced by William T. Cosgrave as the President of the Fine Gael Party, and the reorganized Irish League of Youth also amended it's Constitution to remove his previous hold on power over them. - This year, 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 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, 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." 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, as although the population was composed of 60% Irish Catholics there, still the "Official" Unionists won 60% of the seats. 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. - Joseph Devlin, the minority Irish Opposition leader of the Irish Nationalist M.P.s there, and and 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 In the Irish Free State (26 Counties of the 32 Counties of Ireland) the anti - Treaty IRA leaders now ordered their country IRA units to interfere with the Irish Republican Congress Party marchers also, as they had broken away from their group originally, and were now more socialist orientated.  

March: In Dublin in the Irish Free State, the Tram and Bus workers went on strike, and on March 22nd the IRA came out declaring for the plight of the workers. March 26th: Eamonn de Valera, the leader of the Fianna Fail Government, had 44 of the IRA and Irish Republican Congress Party members arrested, including Peader O Donnell, but then released them after they had all been interrogated. 

      In the 6 Counties artificially partitioned from the 9 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, where 5 more people were killed. The extent of the prejudice, that was still occurring there was on display once again for all to see, when of the 346 people interned in prison there without trial, 345 were Irish Catholics, and the only response of the British Imperial Government to this was to send over extra funds to the "Official" Unionists to continue to support their Ascendancy position. - Sir Edward Carson, the original "Official" Unionist leader, who was originally from Dublin, died. - The anti - Treaty IRA there, raided the armoury at Campbell Army College to gain arms, but were driven off by the 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 IRA, who he wanted to give up their arms and cease drilling in public. Sean Russell said that he would co - operate if Eamonn de Valera was to get on with it and declare Ireland, an Irish Republic within 5 years, but he wouldn't agree and ironically told him that, "You want it both ways."

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

May 29th: Eamonn de Valera, the Taoiseach of the Irish Free State, in the Fianna Fail Government, now publicly declared stated that, "Ireland would not be permitted as a base for any attacks 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 under Eamonn de Valera, and the members of the militant 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 in America, to arrange peace between Eamonn de Valera and the anti - Treaty IRA under the leadership of Sean Russell, but Eamonn de Valera told him that he would not enter into any further negotiations on the matter. 

      A.E. / George Russell (1867 - 1935) who had been a key figure in the Gaelic revival, died this year.      

1935 William T. Cosgrave the previous first Taoiseach (leader) of Ireland was 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 once again became 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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