Party Politics in a New Democracy The Irish Free State 1922 37 1st edition by Mel Farrell 9783319635859 3319635859

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 Party Politics in a New Democracy
The Irish Free State, 1922-37
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.  

Party Politics in a New Democracy The Irish Free State 1922 37 1st Table of contents:

Part I From Revolution to Statehood, 1919–27
Chapter 1 Introduction: The Politics of Independent Ireland
Ireland in Context
Historiography and Free State Politics
Chapter 2 ‘Substance Not Shadows’: Sinn Féin and the Anglo-Irish Treaty
The ‘New’ Nationalism
The Rising and a ‘New’ Sinn Féin
Towards Settlement?
The Treaty
Chapter 3 ‘The Deplorable Conflict’: Free State Politics and the Civil War
An Unpromising Start
Sinn Féin Disintegrates
A Treaty Party
From War to Politics
The 1923 Election
Chapter 4 Aspirations and Realities: Cumann na nGaedheal in Government, 1923–1926
Cumann na nGaedheal Government
Identity and Cumann na nGaedheal
The Army Crisis
Reorganising Cumann na nGaedheal
The Boundary Question
Part II A Stable Democracy, 1927–37
Chapter 5 A Two-Party System? Free State Politics in 1927
The Foundation of Fianna Fáil
Cumann na nGaedheal and the Right
The June 1927 Election
Cosgrave’s New Government
The September 1927 Election
Chapter 6 ‘Holding the Scales Even’: Cumann na nGaedheal’s Final Years in Power
Cumann na nGaedheal and Industry
The Free State on the Eve of Depression
Economic Committee
Depression and Political Change
Christmas Cutbacks
Chapter 7 Political Realignment: Ireland in the 1930s—A Stable Democracy?
The 1932 Election
Political Realignment
The New Government
Cumann na nGaedheal in Opposition
Street Politics
Fine GaelUnited Ireland Party
Constitutionalism Reasserts Itself
Chapter 8 Fine Gael and Fianna Fáil: Common Origins, Separate Identities?
Irish Politics, 1922–1937
Bibliography
Index
 

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