Focusing on the immediate postwar years, this chapter explores political commentary in Cruiskeen Lawn during a period marked by economic stagnation, cultural conservatism, and political volatility. It analyses Myles’s response to both domestic and international developments, including Ireland’s relationship with the United States, the 1945 presidential election, Partition, the Health Act of 1947, and the alternation between Fianna Fáil and Inter-Party governments. Central to the chapter is the argument that Myles’s satire becomes more explicitly political in this period, increasingly targeting governmental inefficiency, clerical influence, and the unfulfilled promises of independence. The declaration of the Republic in 1949 and the controversy surrounding the Mother and Child Scheme are treated as pivotal moments that expose tensions between modernization and entrenched conservatism in Ireland. Through close readings of selected columns, the chapter demonstrates how Myles critiques bureaucratic inertia and ideological rigidity while simultaneously revealing his own conservative instincts and scepticism towards reformist zeal. The chapter thus presents Cruiskeen Lawn as a forum in which post-independence disillusionment is articulated through irony and contradiction, capturing as it did the frustrations of a society caught between symbolic sovereignty and material decline.