Since the formation of the first Fianna Fáil government on 9 March 1932, the party has been in power for 61 of the last 79 years.

When Éamon de Valera led Fianna Fáil to victory in the Irish Free State election of 1932, he began removing the monarchical elements of the constitution, beginning with the Oath of Allegiance.

In 1926, he founded Fianna Fáil, and was head of government ( President of the Executive Council, later Taoiseach ) from 1932 to 1948, 1951 to 1954, and 1957 to 1959, when he resigned after being elected as President of Ireland.

* Fianna Fáil under Éamon de Valera ( 1932 – 37 )

In an era when democratic governments formed in the aftermath of the First World War were moving away from democracy and towards dictatorships, the Free State under Cosgrave remained unambiguously democratic, a fact shown by his handing over of power to his one-time friend, then rival, Éamon de Valera, when de Valera's Fianna Fáil won the 1932 general election, in the process killing off talk within the Irish Army of staging a coup to keep Cosgrave in power and de Valera out of it.

Costello lost his position as Attorney-General when Fianna Fáil came to power in 1932.

In 1932, many young republicans switched allegiance from the republican movement to Fianna Fáil.

He joined Fianna Fáil on its foundation in 1926 and was elected as a Fianna Fáil TD for the Kildare constituency at the June 1927 general election, only to lose that seat in the 1932 general election, which Fianna Fáil won.

Nonetheless it came as a surprise when Cumann na nGaedheal was defeated by Fianna Fáil in the general election of February 1932, winning only 57 seats to Fianna Fáil's 72.

In 1932 they were elected into power as the Fianna Fáil party.

They formed the government of the state until 1932, when they peacefully handed over power to the anti-Treaty faction in Fianna Fáil, who defeated them in an election.

Fianna Fáil won the 1932 election on a programme of developing Irish industry, creating jobs, providing more social services and cutting the remaining links with the British Empire.

In 1932, Fianna Fáil entered government in coalition with the Labour Party, but a year later they won an absolute majority.

In 1932, after Éamon de Valera and Fianna Fáil's victory in the general election, the 1922 Irish Free State constitution was amended through a series of legislative changes, was subsequently replaced with a new constitution.

In 1932 the Labour Party supported Éamon de Valera's first Fianna Fáil government, which had proposed a programme of social reform with which the party was in sympathy.

Following the 1932 general election Fianna Fáil came to power and Ryan was appointed Minister for Agriculture, a position he would continuously hold for fifteen years.

He was a member of every Fianna Fáil cabinet from 1932 to April 1965.

In 1932 Fianna Fáil came to power for the very first time, with MacEntee becoming Minister for Finance.

Following the 1932 general election Fianna Fáil formed a new government.

This was due to the retirement of his father who had served in every Fianna Fáil government since 1932.

The true reason, however, appears to have been the new government's discovery that in 1932, O ' Duffy's was one of the voices urging W. T. Cosgrave to resort to a military coup rather than to turn over power to the incoming Fianna Fáil administration.

The Army Comrades Association was formed in February 1932, to promote the interests of ex-National Army members, to defend conservative interests and to halt what they perceived as an emerging threat coming from their political opponents, the Irish Republican Army and Fianna Fáil.

When the Fianna Fáil government came to power in 1932 Andrews was put in charge of turf development.

Near the end of the first decade of the double-Bills ' guidance, the Cubs won the NL pennant in 1929 and then achieved the unusual feat of winning a pennant every three years, following up the 1929 flag with league titles in 1932, 1935, and 1938.

Entering the Olympics in 1928, India won all five games without conceding a goal and won from 1932 until 1956 and then in 1964 and 1980.

In the 1932 election, the Nazis won 37. 3 percent of the vote and 230 seats in the Reichstag.

In 1932, at Beaumont in the Texas League, he hit 39 homers with 131 RBIs, won the MVP award, and led Beaumont to the Texas League title.

In 1932 he was nominated for the Academy Award for Live Action Short Film in the comedy division for producing The Loud Mouth ( with Matt McHugh, in the sports-heckler role later taken in Columbia Pictures remakes by Charley Chase and Shemp Howard ), and he won in the novelty division for his film Wrestling Swordfish.

Though Chuck Klein won the Most Valuable Player Award in 1932 and the National League Triple Crown in 1933, the team continued to flounder at the bottom of the standings for years.

The ISU approved the suggestion that the speed skating at the 1932 Winter Olympics should be held as packstyle races, and Americans won all four gold medals.

With the Labor Party split between Scullin's supporters and Langites, and with a very popular leader ( Lyons had a genial manner and the common touch ), the UAP won the subsequent parliamentary elections in December 1931 in a massive landslide which saw the two wings of the Labor Party cut down to 18 seats between them, and Lyons became Prime Minister in January 1932.

His father competed in nordic combined and cross-country skiing events in the 1964 Winter Olympics, and his grandfather, Jack Shea, won two gold medals in the 1932 Winter Olympics at Lake Placid in speed skating.

The Bruins have had at least one competitor in every Olympics since 1920 with one exception ( 1924 ), and UCLA has won a gold medal in every Olympics since 1932 with the exception of 1980 ( boycott ).

Although Barcelona won the very first Liga in 1929 and Real Madrid won their first titles in 1932 and 1933, it was Athletic Bilbao that set the early pace winning Primera División in 1930, 1931, 1934 and 1936.

Fredric March won his second Best Actor award ( after winning in 1932 for Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde ).

Birger Ruud had won the gold medal in the ski jumping event at both the 1932 and 1936 Winter Games.

With no ensuing restrictions on his policies, he abolished the Oath of Allegiance ( which Cosgrave intended to do had he won the 1932 general election ), the Senate, university representation in the Dáil, and appeals to the Privy Council.

An exception to this was the first Pulitzer ever awarded to a musical: when Of Thee I Sing won in 1932, book authors George S. Kaufman and Morrie Ryskind, as well as lyricist Ira Gershwin, were cited as the winners, while composer George Gershwin's contribution was overlooked by the committee.

* George S. Kaufman won the award twice, once in 1932 and once in 1937.

The Yankees had not been to the World Series since 1932, but they won the next four Fall Classics.

He won an island scholarship in 1932, which allowed him to attend St Catherine's Society, Oxford ( which subsequently became St Catherine's College, Oxford ).

According to Rank ( 1932 / 1989 ), unlearning or breaking out of our shell from the inside is “ a separation is so hard, not only because it involves persons and ideas that one reveres, but because the victory is always, at bottom, and in some form, won over a part of one ’ s ego ” ( p. 375 ).

In 1974, the cultural anthropologist Ernest Becker won the Pulitzer prize for The Denial of Death ( 1973 ), which was based on Rank ’ s post-Freudian writings, especially Will Therapy ( 1929 – 31 ), Psychology and the Soul ( 1930 ) and Art and Artist ( 1932 / 1989 ).

The film, which depicts the pair attempting to move a piano up a large flight of steps, won the first Academy Award for Live Action Short Film ( Comedy ) in 1932.

Although he had originally read classics, he won his prize fellowship in law and was called to the bar in 1932.