Public Safety Act

Ireland [1927]

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effect on Irish history

  • Map showing the republic of Ireland, its counties, and its major cities.
    In Ireland: The Irish Free State, 1922–32

    Cosgrave passed a stringent Public Safety Act and introduced legislation requiring that all candidates for the Dáil declare their willingness, if elected, to take the oath of allegiance. De Valera then led his new party, Fianna Fáil (“Soldiers of Ireland”), into the Dáil and signed the declaration required under…

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