Fianna Fail in Power

• Fianna Fail took apart the Anglo-Irish Treaty by removing the oath of allegiance in 1933, making the position of governor-general useless by appointing someone unrelated, and removing references to the British monarch from the Irish Constitution in 1936.
• Fianna Fail also wrote a new constitution in 1937 - Bunreacht na hEireann - where Douglas Hyde became president, and the new constitution stated that the country was to be Eire or Ireland, Irish was the official language, and they were to have control over the island of Ireland
• De Valera decided that Ireland were to not pay anymore land annuities (British loans for Irish farmers). Britain retaliated by placing a 20% tariff on Irish goods. De Valera fought back with a 5% tariff on British goods entering Ireland. This was known as the Economic War, lasting from 1932 to 1938. This ended with the Anglo-Irish Agreement of 1938, resulting in no more land annuities, reduced tariffs and returning Cobh, Berehaven and Lough Swilly.
• Welfare payments were introduced in 1933 for widows and orphans, along with jobseekers benefit introduced in 1935. Roughly 10k houses more were built than Cumann na nGaedheal's time in government. The IRA was banned in 1936, leading to 500 members being imprisoned in 1939 after bombing Britain.