The end of Fianna Fáil's Ireland

Drifting in an ‘Unmoored’ Political System

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ID6074846
AuthorsR Kenneth Carty (The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada, corresponding author)
Year2024
Volume39
Issue4
Pages522-538
Publication date2024-10-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueIrish Political Studies (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0790-7184 • E-ISSN: 1743-9078
PublisherInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/07907184.2024.2313749
OpenAlexW4392221349
LanguageEN
Citations received3
References cited15

This essay investigates and describes the political regime that dominated much of Irish political life in the twentieth century. It was marked by the rise, and eventual fall, of Fianna Fáil as the nation's government party. It charts the creation of the Fianna Fáil regime – the building of a government party to manage a state deliberately cast in its own terms – and then identifies and explores the long decade that saw the slow collapse of both. In the aftermath, the fragmentation of national political competition, and the challenges to the constitutional framework, have left a political regime bereft of the party and constitutional frames that long defined its core political moorings

Physics · Political science · Politics · Electoral Systems and Political Participation · Irish and British Studies · Law · Populism, Right-Wing Movements

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