By Mike Cronin, John M Regan (eds.)
This quantity units out to ascertain the background of eire within the years following the Dail's ratification of independence from Britain in 1922. different authors within the assortment, all specialists on assorted elements of Irish heritage from the 1st half the 20th century, concentrate on a variety of assorted issues. concerns of the decline of Redmondite nationalism, the function of Unionism within the loose nation, get together buildings and corporation, the advance of alternative different types of id, the character of economics and where of the newly self reliant eire in the British Empire are all integrated. All chapters are both the results of new archival study in any other case supply a sustained historiographical critique of present thinking.
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Meenan, p. 99. , p. 96. R. Pope-Hennessy, The Irish Dominion League: A Method of Approach to Settlement (London, 1920), p. 28. Ibid. H. Plunkett, Home Rule and Conscription (Dublin and London, 1918), p. 14. S. Gwynn, Observer, 12 December 1920, Gwynn Newspaper Cuttings, NLI. Monteagle to Jellet, 26 June 1920, Monteagle Papers, NLI, MS 13, 417. The Irish Dominion League Official Report, Setting Forth a Summary of Results Achieved Together with the Proceedings on Dissolution (Dublin, 1921), p. 7.
4 In contrast, the treatyite parties failed repeatedly during the crucial period 1926–33 to organise an extraparliamentary parties which could match the Fianna Fáil machine. 5 A number of theories have been put forward in order to explain the contrasting performance of the extra-parliamentary political organisations of the two largest parties in the state. Tom Garvin has argued that its origins lay in the anti-treatyites’ abstentionist policy: Cumann na nGaedheal suffered from a serious lack of organisation and strength at local level, in part because the leadership, which had never witnessed competitive party politics of a normal kind, and was insensitive to the need for regular branch organisation in the late 1920s.
John and Willie Redmond have in particular come to be viewed as martyrs to the Home Rule cause just as Patrick Pearse has come to represent the sacrificial aspect of republicanism. But the dramatic careers and deaths of some of the best-known advocates of Home Rule have Senia Paseta 29 come to over-shadow the little-known but important activities of a younger generation of Home Rulers, a generation poised to inherit and lead a self-governing Ireland. The demise of constitutional nationalism dealt a death blow not only to the Irish Party but to the men and women who had been prepared to lead Ireland in the new century.