TY - BOOK AU - Farrell,Mel ED - SpringerLink (Online service) TI - Party Politics in a New Democracy: The Irish Free State, 1922-37 T2 - Palgrave Studies in Political History SN - 9783319635859 AV - DA1-995 U1 - 941 23 PY - 2017/// CY - Cham PB - Springer International Publishing, Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan KW - Great Britain—History KW - Europe—History—1492- KW - World politics KW - Social history KW - Military history KW - History of Britain and Ireland KW - History of Modern Europe KW - Political History KW - Social History KW - History of Military N1 - 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? -- Bibliography -- Index; Available to subscribing member institutions only. Доступно лише організаціям членам підписки N2 - 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. UR - https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-63585-9 ER -