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Tue 11 Nov 2009November 24th, 1934: Six men jailed over attempt to thwart collection of land annuity
BACK PAGES:The so-called “Economic War” in the 1930s began when the Fianna Fáil government refused to continue paying land annuities – the repayments due to the British government for lengthy loans given to farmers to buy their land.
It did not mean, however, that farmers were freed of the repayments: the Irish government continued to collect them, sometimes by force, resulting in incidents in various parts of the country as farmers faced severe financial hardship because of Britain’s retaliatory taxes on Irish food.
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