The Rise of Fianna Fáil | 1926 - 1933 | The Emergency - E02
The Irish Civil War left a bitter legacy which lasted long after the conflict ended. In 1927 Kevin O’Higgins, the Minister for Justice who had signed 77 death warrants during the Civil War, was murdered on his way to Sunday mass. While it was a terrible blow for the government, they also saw it as an opportunity to put pressure on their Anti-Treaty opponents, Fianna Fáil. Instead, their actions would bring Éamon de Valera to power and set the stage for his constitutional conflict with Britain which would all but guarantee Ireland’s neutral stance during World War 2.
References:
Brian Girvin - “The Emergency”
Fearghal McGarry - “Eoin O’Duffy”
Adrian Hoar - “In Green and Red”
Caleb Wood Richardson - “Smyllie’s Ireland”
David McCullagh - “Éamon de Valera: Rise”
David McCullagh - “Éamon de Valera: Rule”
David Gray - “A Yankee in De Valera’s Ireland”
Election posters fro 1930’s: irishelectionliterature.com/
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Military Archives
NLI Flickr account
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Thanks James for these enlightening episodes, great clarity provided on each period and the contrasting positions taken
Very well done, informative and your own political opinion doesn't shine through which is a good sign for this sort of retrospective. Thanks!
@TheIrishNationLives
4 жыл бұрын
Thanks very much. I try to be as balanced as possible so that's a great compliment to get!
@alritebud
4 жыл бұрын
@@TheIrishNationLives This was the first video I watched, I've viewed some more since and I'm currently watching Dev in America. Very impressed. I'm researching for a book and I hope to portray the same sort of apolitical narrative. Keep it up, great channel.
@TheIrishNationLives
4 жыл бұрын
@@alritebud Thanks, next 'in America' episode is probably next month. Best of luck with the book, sounds interesting. If I can ever be a help with references or anything you're welcome to drop a message.
@alritebud
4 жыл бұрын
@@TheIrishNationLives Thanks for the offer, I noticed your videos are well referenced. I'm following the channel so will have you in mind. Best of luck and thanks again.
I am a rank amateur in my knowledge of Irish politics in the twenties , thirties and forties and I am trying to understand these events in my later years. Has the bloodshed ever stopped over politics and it seems that the Northern counties are turning to blood politics after a truce has been shaken by the actions of new generations of Irish youth who seem to display the same disunity I have read about in so many eras of this wonderful place.
O,Higgins was never forgiven by the I.R.A. for ordering the execution of notable ante-Treaty soldiers including around 85 rounded up in 1922/23 and sentenced to death with his signature on their death warrants.
@TheIrishNationLives
4 жыл бұрын
Very true, including Rory O'Connor who was best man at his wedding.
Truth fully politicians even big de Valera or todays speak the speak promise where truth fully they just line own pockets ensure there children linerage by wen politician dies the sit goes to child in this country a corrupt system. But thank you brilliant series your just reporting putting it out there top job.🇮🇪👍☘Godbless🙏
@TheIrishNationLives
4 жыл бұрын
Hi Paul, thanks very much for checking out the channel!
What to you think about Fianna Fáil's decision to take the oath in 1927? Where they right or should they have maintained the absentionist stance of Sinn Féin?