Party Politics in a New Democracy : the Irish Free State, 1922-37 / by Mel Farrell.
Farrell, Mel, author.
2017
DA1-DA995
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Title Party Politics in a New Democracy : the Irish Free State, 1922-37 / by Mel Farrell.
Author Farrell, Mel, author.
ISBN 9783319635859
3319635859
9783319635842
3319635840
DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-63585-9
Published Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, 2017.
Language English
Description 1 online resource (XIV, 332 pages 20 illustrations, 3 illustrations in color.) : online resource
Item Number 10.1007/978-3-319-63585-9 doi
9783319635842
Call Number DA1-DA995
Dewey Decimal Classification 941
Summary This book offers a timely, and fresh historical perspective on the politics of independent Ireland. Interwar Ireland's politics have been caricatured as an anomaly, with the distinction between Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael bewildering political commentators and scholars alike. It is common for Ireland's politics to be presented as an anomaly that compare unfavourably to the neat left/right cleavages evident in Britain and much of Europe. By offering an historical re-appraisal of the Irish Free State's politics, anchored in the wider context of inter-war Europe, Mel Farrell argues that the Irish party system is not unique in having two dominant parties capable of adapting to changing circumstances, and suggests that this has been a key strength of Irish democracy. Moreover, the book challenges the tired cliché of 'Civil War Politics' by demonstrating that events subsequent to Civil War led the Fine Gael/Fianna Fáil cleavage dominant in the twentieth-century.
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Series Palgrave studies in political history.
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Part I: From Revolution to Statehood, 1919-27
1. Introduction: The Politics of Independent Ireland
2. 'Substance Not Shadows: Sinn Féin and the Anglo-Irish Treaty
3. 'The deplorable conflict': Free State Politics and the Civil War
4. Aspirations and Realities: Cumann na nGaedheal in Government, 1923-27
Part II: A Stable Democracy, 1927-37
5. A Two Party System? Free State Politics in 1927
6. 'Holding the scales even': Cumann na nGaedheal's final years in power
6. 'Holding the scales even': Cumann na nGaedheal's final years in power
7. Political Realignment: Ireland in the 1930s, A Stable Democracy? 8. Fine Gael and Fianna Fáil: Common Origins & Separate Identities?
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