The New Irish State

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Across
  1. 7. Hydroelectric Dam built to produce electricity for industry, farming and homes
  2. 13. First Presidant of the Ececutive Council 1923
  3. 16. Introduced in 1950, this provided free medical help to mothers and children under 16
  4. 18. Minister for Health under the first Inter-Party Government
  5. 20. The Pro-Treaty Party which formed a government after the Civil War
  6. 21. All three were placed back under Ireland's control as part of the Anglo-Irish Agreement 1938
  7. 23. Fianna Fail's Minister for Industry and Commerce
  8. 25. Introduced during WWII, coupons were exchanged for goods in shops
  9. 26. Period of preoperity in Ireland during the 1990s
Down
  1. 1. deValera's refusal to pay these led to the 'Economic War' with Britain
  2. 2. Taoiseah under the first Inter-Party Government
  3. 3. took place in 1972 and resulted in Ireland joining the EEC
  4. 4. Ireland during WWII was known as -
  5. 5. Oath which had to be taken by members of the Dáil and Seanad
  6. 6. Set up to make changes to the border between Northern Ireland and the rest of Ireland
  7. 8. Succeeded Jack Lynch as Taoiseach in 1979
  8. 9. Had their commemorative march banned in August 1933
  9. 10. Prime Minister of Northern Ireland who met the Taoiseah in Dublin in 1965
  10. 11. Signed by Garrett Fitzgerald and Margaret Thatcher, this was a major achievement in the Northern Ireland peace process
  11. 12. Act passed in 1933 allowing Commonwealth countries to change laws passed by the British Government
  12. 14. Representative of the King in Ireland, boycotted and abolished by deValera
  13. 15. Minister for Education who introduced free secondary education
  14. 17. Became Taoiseach and leader of Fianna Fail in 1959
  15. 19. Anti-Treaty party set up by deValera in 1926
  16. 22. In 1949 Ireland was declared a -
  17. 24. more than one party joing together to form a government