On the Road to Extinction
Agrarian Parties in Twentieth‐Century Ireland
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6074523 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Tony Varley |
| Year | 2010 |
| Volume | 25 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 581-601 |
| Publication date | 2010-12-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Irish Political Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0790-7184 • E-ISSN: 1743-9078 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/07907184.2010.518699 |
| OpenAlex | W2073319067 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 10 |
| References cited | 31 |
Four main explanations have been offered to account for the absence of a major agrarian party in post‐independence Ireland and for the minor status and transience of those agrarian parties that did appear. For contextual reasons associated with nationalism and modernity, two of these suggest that there was no real need for a major agrarian party to begin with. Two other explanations point to the inability of the three main agrarian parties that did emerge to transcend the class divisions that prevented farmers becoming a coherent political class, and to counter the inadequacies that left them organisationally and tactically disadvantaged vis‐à‐vis their political rivals. The author’s reading emphasises how the difficulties generated by class and political divisions were mutually reinforcing and how these difficulties in turn impacted on organisational and tactical prospects
Agrarian society · Agriculture · Disadvantaged · Independence (probability theory · Nationalism · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Irish and British Studies · Philippine History and Culture · Political and Economic history of UK and US · History · Law
Conclusions
Construction
Farming The Nation
Emigrants vs. rural politics
Minor Parties in Irish Political Life
From Mainstream to Minor and Back
The Rise and Fall of Minor Parties in Ireland
Minor Parties
Breaking the Mould or Fiddling at the Edges? Ireland’s Minor Parties in Comparative and Systemic Perspective
Influencing Political Decision‐Making
Ireland, 1912-1985
Politics in the Republic of Ireland
Land and Revolution
The Making of Fianna Fáil Power in Ireland 1923–1948
The Irish Free State
Eoin O'Duffy - A self-made hero
Political Parties in the Irish Free State
Irish Elections 1948–77
Nationalism and popular protest in Ireland
Social Origins of the Irish Land War
The Changing Irish Party System
The Pact General Election of 1922
Galway
Cleavages, competition and coalition‐building
Explaining Irish Democracy
The Social Origins of the Irish Land War
| Unique citing works | 10 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,63 |
| Citation span | 2010 - 2022 (13) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 10 |