In 1937 De Valera's republican constitution took Ireland out of the British Commonwealth, and the new republic elected its first president, Douglas Hyde, in 1938.
Ireland left the British Commonwealth in 1937, and elected its first president in 1938.
But you can't get lost for long, and in perhaps half an hour of driving around this area of Grands Fonds you'll get a real feeling for the pastoral simplicity that's typical of Guadeloupe.