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Topical Budget 627-1: Free State or Republic? (1923)

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30/8/1923
35mm, black and white, 66 feet, silent

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Polling scenes at the General Election in Dublin, held on 27 August 1923.

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Polling scenes at the Irish general election, where the main issue was whether the country should remain as a Free State or become a full republic, the goal of De Valera's Fianna Fáil party. The Republic of Ireland was finally declared in 1949.

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	Topical Budget: Ireland