Religious Minorities and the Constitution of the Irish Free State, 1922-1937

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas Mohr
Keyword(s):  
Free State ◽  
Religious Minorities ◽  
Irish Free State

Irish Free State newspapers and the Abyssinian crisis, 1935–6

2009 ◽  
Vol 36 (143) ◽  
pp. 368-388 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cian McMahon
Keyword(s):  
Crop Production ◽  
Free State ◽  
Self Sufficiency ◽  
Irish Free State ◽  
High Tariff ◽  
Agricultural Labourers

Twenty-four years ago, Terence Brown raised very few eyebrows when he portrayed the Irish Free State in the 1930s as an insular society obsessed with self-sufficiency. The theme of insularity has dominated most narratives of the period, with emphasis on the Anglo-Irish Economic War, the Censorship Board and the 1937 Constitution. The de Valera government’s intention in the Economic War, after all, was to create native industries behind high-tariff barriers and to favour agricultural labourers by shifting the tillage/pasture ratio in Ireland in favour of crop production. This protectionist programme was insularity writ large. Likewise, the government’s censorship of domestic and imported literature ‘concelebrated’, according to J. J. Lee, ‘the intellectual poverty of the period’.

The Irish Free State: Its Government and Politics

1936 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 399
Author(s):  
E. C. S. Wade ◽  
N. Mansergh
Keyword(s):  
Free State ◽  
Irish Free State

“The Work of Some Irresponsible Women”: Jurors, Ghosts, and Embracery in the Irish Free State

2020 ◽  
Vol 38 (4) ◽  
pp. 777-810
Author(s):  
Mark Coen
Keyword(s):  
Free State ◽  
State Legitimacy ◽  
Administration Of Justice ◽  
Jury System ◽  
Irish Free State ◽  
British Press

This article examines a campaign of jury intimidation conducted by female Republicans in the Irish Free State from 1926 to 1934. It discusses the rationale, logistics and key personalities of the campaign, as well as the policing, prosecutorial and legislative responses to it. The article demonstrates that a small number of women disrupted the administration of justice and generated a significant amount of publicity for their actions, not only in Ireland but also in the British press. In-depth consideration of this overlooked campaign brings issues of gender, state legitimacy, subversive activity and the vulnerability of the jury system into sharp relief.

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