Democracy and Dissent in the Irish Free State

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Democracy and Dissent in the Irish Free State

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Author: Jason K. Knirck

Type: Hardback

ISBN: 9781526166272

Date: 21st February, 2023

Publisher: MANCHESTER UNIVERSITY PRESS

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  2. Politics
  3. European
  4. History

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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 F�in attempt to recreate or restore notions of revolutionary unity. This conflict made democracy and opposition hard to establish in the Irish Free State.

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