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Republican opponents of the Anglo Irish Treaty also opposed the new Senate, and 37 of the senators' homes were burnt to the ground. Others were intimidated, kidnapped or almost assassinated. Nevertheless, the first Senate greatly influenced the guiding principles and legislative foundations of the new State. The first Chairman was Lord Glenavy, formerly the Lord Chief Justice of Ireland in 1916-1921. Many of the former Unionist members of the Senate discount tickets walt disney world had their homes burnt and were in fear of their life; however they still carried out their civic duty to the Irish Free State. A snippet from the Irish Times dated April 1922 gives us an insight into the political turbulence and violence through out Ireland in 1922-23 period.
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