Democracy and dissent in the Irish Free State
Opposition, decolonization, and majority rights
By Jason Knirck
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Book Information
- Format: Hardcover
- ISBN: 978-1-5261-6627-2
- Pages: 296
- Publisher: Manchester University Press
- Price: £85.00
- Published Date: January 2023
- BIC Category: Irish History, Modern History, History, British and Irish Politics, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Process / General, HISTORY / Europe / Ireland, Humanities / National liberation & independence, post-colonialism, Humanities / 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, Society & social sciences / Politics & government, Humanities / British & Irish history, European history: medieval period, middle ages, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Colonialism & Post-Colonialism, HISTORY / Modern / 20th Century
Description
Presenting a new analysis of the difficulties in normalising opposition in the Irish Free State, this book examines 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.
Contents
1 Democracy, historians and the civil war
2 Opposition and revolution
3 Decolonising the state
4 Making politics normal
5 A slightly constitutional opposition
6 Cults of little personality
Coda: multiparty democracy in the Irish Free State
Index
Author
Jason Knirck is Professor of History at Central Washington University
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