EAN: 9783319635842

PARTY POLITICS IN A NEW DEMOCRACY - MEL FARRELL...

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.

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