Drogheda Grammar School History
  • DGS History
  • Form 1
    • Form One Homework Mr. Geoghegan
    • Becoming a Historian
    • Mesolithic & Neolithic Ireland
    • Bronze Age and Celtic Ireland
    • The Romans
    • The Middle Ages
    • Form One Revision
    • Form 1 Feedback
  • Form 2
    • Form Two Homework Mr. Geoghegan
    • Introduction to the Renaissance
    • Age of Exploration >
      • 2S Age of Exploration
      • 2M Age of Exploration
    • Reformation and Counter Reformation
    • Plantations
    • American War of Independence
    • The French Revolution
    • 1798 Rebellion
    • The Great Famine
    • Agricultural, Industrial and Transport Revolutions
    • CBA 1
    • Form 2 Feedback
  • Form 3
    • Form Three Homework Mr. Geoghegan
    • Famine
    • Nationalism, Republicanism and Unionism
    • Cumann na nGaedheal
    • Ireland 1932-48
    • Ireland 1948-57
    • Ireland during the 1960s
    • Northern Ireland 3
    • Europe after World War One
    • Fascism and Communism
    • Rise of Mussolini
    • Stalin
    • World War Two
    • Cold War
    • Revision
    • Form 3 Feedback
  • TY
    • Alcatraz
    • Auschwitz
    • TY Feedback
  • Senior Cycle History
    • Introduction and RSR >
      • Introduction to LC History Resources
    • Marking Scheme
    • Form Five Online Classroom
    • Form Six Online Classroom
    • USA and the Wider World >
      • Franklin Delano Roosevelt
      • Harry S Truman
      • Dwight D. Eisenhower
      • US Economy
      • Revision
      • Essay Plans
    • Northern Ireland >
      • Division of Ireland
      • Welfare State
      • Civil Rights Movement
      • The day the Troubles Began
      • Sunningdale Agreement and UWC Strike
      • The Hunger Strikes
      • Attempts to bring peace
      • Movie Trailers
    • Form 6 Ireland 1912-49 >
      • Anglo-Irish Treaty
      • Cumann na nGaedheal
      • Eucharistic Congress
    • Form 6 Europe Dictatorship and Democracy >
      • Rise of Fascism in Italy
      • Weimer Republic and Rise of the Nazis
      • Communism in Russia
      • Inter-War Britain
      • Third French Republic 1920-40
    • Form Five Homework Mr. Geoghegan
    • Form Six Homework Mr. Geoghegan
    • Senior Cycle Feedback
    • Krakow 2019
  • DBQ

Establishing the Free State

Following the Anglo-Irish treaty it was agreed that the British government would leave Ireland.  Imagine how difficult it must have been for the Irish government taking over to try and establish the state from scratch.  If they replaced the British system with an exact copy the Irish people would be unhappy as they would see no difference between British and Irish rule.  for this reason even simple things like the red colour of the former british postal system would need to be changed while the government had much bigger things to contend with.  The Government of Ireland Act of 1920 had meant that the main industry in Ireland was now part of northern Ireland.  The new government needed to set up an administrative system, a justice system, a taxation system, and attempt to create employment while they themselves were very limited financially as a new state.
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