Democracy and Dissent in the Irish Free State
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Cumann na nGaedheal
decolonisation
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Fianna Fail
Irish Farmers' Party
Irish Free State
Irish Labour Party
Parliamentary opposition
Sinn Fein
W.T. Cosgrave
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- ISBN 9781526166272
- Weight: 549g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 21 Feb 2023
- Publisher: Manchester University Press
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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A new analysis of the difficulties in normalising opposition in the Irish Free State, this book analyses the collision between nineteenth-century monolithic nationalist movements with the norms and expectations of multiparty parliamentary democracy. The Irish revolutionaries’ attempts to create a Gaelic, postcolonial state involved resolving tension between these two ideas. Smaller economically-driven parties such as the Labour and Farmers’ parties attempted to move on from the revolution’s unnatural focus on nationalist political issues while the larger revolutionary parties descended from Sinn Féin attempt to recreate or restore notions of revolutionary unity. This conflict made democracy and opposition hard to establish in the Irish Free State.
Jason Knirck is Professor of History at Central Washington University
