Podcast: The Economic War 1932-38

Cathal Brennan and John Dorney discuss the trace war between Ireland and Britain in the 1930s. First broadcast on the Irish History Show.

See also our article on this topic here. 

The Fianna Fail government that won the eelction of 1932 refused to pay the Land Annuities owed to Britain under the Anglo Irish Treaty.

The British for their part hoped to oust the de Valera government by economic pressure and placed a series of heavy tarrifs on Irish agricultural goods imported to Britain.

This sparked off a trade war that was only settled in 1938, when de Valera agreed to pay a tenth of the annuities and Britain handed back to Ireland the three naval bases they had retained since 1922.

 

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