1951 - 1954 AD
1951 In the Irish Republic the
population was now 2,960,593, and in the
6 Counties artificially partitioned
from the 9 in the Ulster Province by the
British Imperial Government, the population was now 1,370,921. - The
Abbey Theatre, in Dublin, which had previously been
a morgue was burnt down this year.
The Irish Government, and the "Official" Unionist Stormont Government in the 6 Counties artificially partitioned from the 9 in the Ulster Province took over joint control of the Great Northern Railway linking Belfast in Co. Antrim in Ulster and Dublin in the north - east of Southern Leinster.
May: In the Irish Republic, the Fine Gael Coalition Government in Ireland now split up over their various differences, and also because of the Health Maternity Scheme introduced by their Health Minister, Dr. Noel Browne. A General Election was held, and the Clann na Poblachta Party, founded by Sean Mac Bride, had run it's race and was decimated in the election, while the Fianna Fail Party of Eamonn de Valera regained some seats, but not an overall majority, and although in the minority, with independent support, they were to regain control of the Irish Republic Government for another 3 years.
Eamonn
de Valera, the leader of the
Fianna Fail Party,
once again became the Taoiseach / Prime Minister of
the Irish Republic until 1954,
Frank Aiken was to be the Minister of
Agriculture also until 1954 and was then to become the Minister of External Affairs, which he
was to retain until his retirement in 1969. Sean Mac Entee
became the Minister of Finance, and there was also a new face in
Jack Lynch, who was destined to become the Prime Minister / Taoiseach in the future, and
Sean Lemass became the
Parliamentary Secretary.
Eamonn
de Valera's eyesight
was becoming more and more a problem to him, until he basically was to go
blind, but still continued on in the office.
September: Charles
Haughey
/ Cathal O hEachaidh, who was to become a future Prime Minister
of Ireland also married Maureen Lemass the daughter
of Sean Lemass who also was to become a future
Irish Prime Minister / Taoiseach after the retirement of Eamonn de Valera.
In the
6 Counties artificially partitioned from the
9 in the Ulster Province,
which were still under the control of the British Imperial Government, the Reverend Ian Kyle Paisley
had been born in Co. Antrim
in the north - east of
Ulster, whose father was a Baptist minister, he studied in
Wales, and eventually purchased his own doctorate from
the Jones College in America for
20 dollars. He went on to preach pure base
ethnic
and religious intolerance
in the name of God,
and through his words and actions he was to create bloodshed, murder and mayhem throughout these
particular 6 Counties, in Ulster. During
this year, he was to form his own Free Presbyterian Church
of Ulster, which had no connection with the actual
Presbyterian Church movement in the British Isles. He went
about preaching that the Catholic Pope was trying to rule
Ireland, and although he was cunning, devious and catered to the most base elements of
human kind, and the fact that he was to be behind many horrific events, he was in
no way mentally deranged, just devious, and at this time built up an
initial following of
1,000 members.
Things from now on were to get even
worse for the
Irish Catholics there in their own
6 Counties in Ulster, where their ancestors had dwelt for over
3,000 years, and also for the rest of the general population in these
6 Counties.
1952 A further 400,000
Irish
were to emigrate until 1962. -
The Clann na Gael
/ the Organization in America for the return of the
6 Counties artificially partitioned from the 9
in the Ulster Province, split totally with the Sean
Russell anti - monument group.
In
the Irish Republic,
a portion of Loch Gara in Co.
Sligo in the north - west of the Connacht Province
was drained, and 308
crannogs (lake dwellings) were found in the lake.
1953 In the 6 Counties
artificially partitioned from the 9 in the
Ulster Province,
still under the control of the British Imperial Government,
Eamonn de Valera
approached Sir Winston Churchill the British
Conservative Prime Minister, man to man,
to return Roger Casement's remains to
Ireland, as
this had been his wish during his dying days before being
executed by the British Imperial Government, but Winston Churchill told him although he
sympathised with him it couldn't be done, as it was
against British Law.
1954 May: In the Irish Republic, Eamonn de
Valera, called a General Election, where his party the
Fianna Fail, lost another
4 seats
and the election also, and a second Fine Gael Coalition
Government was in again, composed of the Fine Gael Party with
50 seats, the
Irish Labour Party with 19
seats, the Clan na Talmhan,
the
Clann na Poblachta and Independents. They
were all elected for 3 years until 1957 under the
leadership once again of
John A. Costello, as Sean Mac Bride still would not
accept Richard Mulcahy the leader of the
Fine Gael Party as the Prime Minister, and
Sean Mac Eoin became their Minister for Defence until 1957.
In the 6 Counties
artificially
partitioned from the 9 in the Ulster Province, still
under the control of the British Imperial Government and the Ascendancy Stormont
"Official" Unionist Government, the Flags & Emblems Act
was introduced, which banned the
Flag of Ireland, and
the "official" Unionist Stormont Government also made it an Act of Subversion to display the
Irish Flag on St. Patrick's Day,
and only the English Union Jack was allowed to be
displayed. As the "Official" Unionist Ascendancy controlled nearly
all the property
in these 6 Counties in Ulster,
they also introduced a law where the owner of
property there would be entitled to 1 vote
for each 10 pound valuation thereof, giving them
individually up to 6 votes each. They also made
it law there that these votes could be
transferred to any other
Local Government area, which further suited their purposes of gerrymandering.
If
there were any mention of the unlawful treatment
that was
handed out to the Irish Nationalist majority in
Co. Tyrone, Co. Fermanagh, Derry City in
Co. Derry, or any other
part of these 6 Counties, in
Ulster, that they controlled in the British Imperial Parliament at Westminster it was ruled
" Out of
Order."
June 12th: In the 6 Counties artificially
partitioned
from the 9 in the Ulster Province,
still under the control of the British Imperial Government, because of the
continuing blatant ethnic and sectarian oppression being
constantly carried out on the Irish Catholics there without any recourse,
the
IRA became active again.
On this day, they carried out their most successful raid, across the artificial
border on the Gough Barracks in
Co. Armagh in the south - east of
Ulster, which ensured further arms,
recruits and money, while other raids were not so
successful, with some of them being captured,
but they gained a great deal of publicity from these
activities
for the cause of reunification of
Ireland.