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| 1932 |
| | US aviator Amelia Earhart lands in Ireland 15 hours after leaving Newfoundland, to become the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic | |
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| 1932 |
| | Fianna Fáil wins enough seats in the Irish Free State's election for Eamon de Valera to form a government | |
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| 1932 |
| | De Valera withholds farmers' annuities from Britain, provoking British tariffs and a trade war | |
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| 1933 |
| | Fine Gael is the name given to a new political party in Ireland, formed by the merger of several smaller groups | |
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| 1937 |
| | De Valera introduces a new constitution, changing the name of the Irish Free State to Eire (Gaelic for Ireland) | |
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| 1937 |
| | De Valera's new constitution for Eire lays claim to the six counties of northern Ireland | |
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| 1938 |
| | Irish author Samuel Beckett publishes his first novel, Murphy | |
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| 1939 |
| | James Joyce's Finnegans Wake is published after 17 years in the making | |
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| 1939 |
| | Irish author Flann O'Brien publishes his first novel, At Swim-Two-Birds | |
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| 1939 February 2 |
| | De Valera declares that Eire will be neutral in any forthcoming European war | |
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