The Emergency years of the nineteen forty's would bring Ireland continued isolation and very little change.
Ireland had come through the war years still caught in its ancient grievances that were now only compounded by modern resentments;
Ireland dealt with the harmful and lingering reputation of assisting Germany during the war while attending to the damage done in Dublin by its supposed ally.
It floundered in a sluggish economy and appeared futureless except for the fire of reunification that always burned.
Then at long last the Dail repealed the Act that had established Ireland as a British Commonwealth and the Irish Republic was born.
Even after its war for independence, its own civil war, a world wide depression and the Emergency of a world wide war, Ireland remained unchanged, caught in ageless social and economic stagnation.
Its nineteenth century social and economic traditions unchanged and untouched by the Winds of Time or by the Emergency that come to its land .
With the exceptions of a few cities like Dublin and Cork, Ireland remained a rural society looking to its religious and Gaelic lore as an alternative to modernization and progress.
Irelands own independent government led the delay of progress by imposing legislative controls that weakened agricultural production, frustrated economic growth and imposed strict censorship that prevented questioning the wisdom of Irelands direction.
The legislative acts and broad censorship of the press during the Emergency were sadly effective in keeping Ireland mired in the nineteenth century; And, in keeping Ireland an unchanging pastoral nation in a state of unaddressed poverty, limited opportunity, gender inequality and complacency.