Griffith or de Valera? The Split of Catalan Nationalism in the Face of the Irish Civil War

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ID11047221
AuthorsJoan Esculies (0000-0003-1981-869X, Universitat de Vic - Universitat Central de Catalunya, corresponding author)
Year2024
Volume52
Issue4
Pages827-844
Publication date2024-07-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueNationalities Papers (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0090-5992 • E-ISSN: 1465-3923
PublisherCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1017/nps.2023.83
OpenAlexW4388945022
LanguageEN
Citations received2
References cited17

Catalan nationalism had always supported Ireland in its struggle for autonomy or independence against the British Empire. The outbreak of the Irish Civil War, nevertheless, surprised Catalanism. This article discusses the difficulties of the main Catalanist political parties in that period—the Lliga Regionalista, Acció Catalana, and Estat Català—to explain the Anglo-Irish Treaty in the Catalanist milieu as well as the difficulties of differentiating dominion and federation and adopting a coherent position according to their own ideology and to Catalan internal political dynamics. Focusing on this study case, the objective of the article is to show the difficulties of stateless national movements to explain their own politics and objectives from external models. And, likewise, how the look toward an external nationalism can stop being useful or even raise unexpected questions within the movement that tries to explain itself by simplifying the contexts of others

Catalan · Dominion · Economic history · Humanities · Ideology · Independence (probability theory · Irish · Irish nationalism · Linguistics · Nationalism · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Spanish Civil War · History · Law · Philosophy · Political Systems and Governance · Spanish Culture and Identity · Spanish History and Politics

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