Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Cumann na nGaedheal
- Law and Order
- Garda set up by Kevin O'Higgins
- Garda are unarmed
- 1923, Public Safety Acts. Stopped the IRA.
- Army Mutiny
- Army was not happy. The government took their jobs
- Army annoyed because the government did not get full independence.
- Officers sent to prison.
- Government successes.
- ACC gave loans to farmers for better machinery
- Gov. focused on Agriculture
- The people in the cities suffered because the money went to farming.
- Exports sent to Britain.
- Exports reached their highest level in years.
- Lowered taxes on farmers
- The Shannon Scheme
- Industry grew slowly. Why?
- There was not enough power to power the factories.
- Ireland also had to compete against British industry.
- Built hydroelectric power station on the Shannon
- Germans built it for £5 million
- ESB set up to distribute electricity