1949 - 1950 AD
1949
Douglas Hyde,
the non - Catholic founder of the Gaelic League, and the
1st
President of Ireland, died,
and was buried in the Church of England / Ireland churchyard at
Frenchpark in
Co. Roscommon
in the east of the Connacht Province.
Sean T. O Kelly,
had replaced
him as the new
Irish
President, when elected
previously by the
Irish
people who had then served
2
terms in office, as was allowed under the Irish
Constitution.
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February 10th:
General Elections,
were held in the
6 Counties artificially partitioned
from
the 9 in the
Ulster Province
that were still
under the control of the British
Imperial Government and the "Official" Unionist Stormont Government there, and the Ascendancy
"Official" Unionist Party won once again, as they
again
40 seats to the
12
won by the
Irish
Nationalists who were supported by the
Fine Gael Coalition Government
in
the Irish Republic.
Under the gerrymandering carried out by the
Ascendancy Unionists in the Stormont
Government, only the
occupier and
his wife, were now allowed to vote as per their
19th Century provision, which
disallowed any
other adult members
of the prolific Irish Catholic families
from voting.
April - Easter Monday:
After the
Republic of
Ireland had been officially
declared, by
John A. Costello
the
Taoiseach
/
Prime Minister of Ireland,
a celebration was held, and
Eamonn de Valera and his
Fianna Fail
Party members did not attend.
May 3rd:
The
British
Imperial
Parliament, under
Clement Atlee their
Labour Prime Minister,
passed the
Northern Ireland Act,
providing for
the
6
Counties artificially partitioned from the
9 Counties in the
Ulster
Province in 1922, just to continue to satisfy the continuation
of the Ascendancy
"Official" Unionists in
Ireland. It stated
that the 6 Counties would
never leave Britain, except
by the consent of the Stormont
Parliament there, which they then had enshrined in law at
Westminster. This
British Imperial Act,
was to
further ensure that
20% of the population of
Ireland
still had
control over the
Irish minority who still existed there in those
6 Counties in the Ulster
Province, whether they agreed or not, where by gerrymandering of the vote they could
continue to make laws to ensure the ongoing
Ascendancy was retained. Much
suffering and misery was to continue to occur because of this blatant decision
by those who were still in authority in England,
who were not to face up to
their responsibility, and the reality of being fair minded, just to hold
onto their
political
affiliations, to ensure their own survival in the politics of it all. The British
Imperial Government
under their Northern
Ireland Act,
also came to
recognise and
declare that Eire
/
Republic of Ireland was no longer part of their
British Dominions,
and that Ireland
was now able to have an
Ambassador, not a
High Commissioner in England.
This
year, the
British
House of Lords power of
veto over British Government Bills in England
was further
decreased
to One Year, from the
Two Years previously
finally imposed on them in
1911. - The Clann na Gael
split again in
America,
over using the
existing funds to carry on the fight for the return of the
6 Counties artificially
partitioned from the
9 in the
Ulster Province,
and still under the control
of the British Imperial Government in England
and the Ascendancy "Official" Unionist Stormont Government or
whether to build a
monument to
Sean Russell,
which they
eventually did. From
now on the IRA received
little support, and became
Marxist,
and now set their goals on
Irish
Catholic Civil Rights and
Social
Reform in the
6 Counties,
where natural
justice and human rights for the Irish Catholic
population there was continuing to be abused.
1950
There was economic co-operation
between the
Irish Republic,
and the "Official" Unionist
Stormont
Government in the 6 Counties, and joint schemes for
drainage in the
Erne Basin and the Erne Hydro Electric
Station at Brookesborough in the Ulster Province,
were involved.
The
Irish Republic
received $300,000,000 in
grants and loans under the
Marshall
Aid Plan.
The
IRA
was
now led by
Tony Magan, Patrick Mac Logan,
and
Thomas Mac Curtain,
the son of the
Mayor of Cork who
had been assassinated
previously
by the British Government's R.I.C / Black & Tans
in 1921, who
stated that only
the
British Imperial Government in England
was its enemy, and that there would be no more aggressive action in the
Irish Republic
by their IRA members, but only in the
north, to
try an end the artificial partition of the
6 Counties,
in the
Ulster Province. These
objectives of the
IRA was to be eventually passed onto
Sean Cronin
and
Charles Murphy who were both
post war recruits, who would reset the
IRA on a new path, with no member of the
IRA (who had previously been interned) allowed to join, or who had a
criminal record, or showed
any sign of lack of discretion or
sobriety.
George Bernard Shaw, a vegetarian and teetotaller, who was a World renowned music and drama critic, playwright and Sociologist, who had been born in 1856 in Dublin, and who had wrote many plays, including "Arms and the Man," "Caesar and Cleopatra," "Man and Superman," "Pygmalion," "Back to Methuselah" and "Saint Joan," died at the age of 94 this year. He had also assisted in founding the Fabian Society in 1884 AD, and he had also been involved in political social reform and won the Noble Prize in 1925.
Maurice O Sullivan (1904 - 1950) was drowned this year after he had left Ireland to join the Civic Guard, who had written "Twenty Years A Growing."
Ernest Blythe,
who was a
non - Catholic
Irish Nationalist in the Ulster Province,
who had been the
Minister for Finance
in the
first
Irish Free State Government
under William T. Cosgrave, wrote in The
Leader newspaper
that, "Partition
was inherited from bigotry, and
reunion would only come with free consent of
the voters in the
6 artificially partitioned Counties
in the Ulster Province."
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