2007-08-21T09:57:05-07:00 After 16 years of Fianna Fail government and an economic downturn after the “Emergency” of World War II, Irish voters returned a fractious Dail where a number of smaller and special-interest groups supported the nascent Fine Gael to form the First Inter-Party Government 6861 Irish General Election, 1948 JPXenGWZ0jSPIBV10dSn2Q== Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irish_general_election%2C_1948 1008403 2007-11-07T06:33:46-07:00