Democracy and Dissent in the Irish Free State: Opposition, Decolonisation, and Majority Rights

by Jason Knirck

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A new analysis of the difficulties in normalising opposition in the Irish Free State, this book analyses the collision between nineteenth-century monolithic nationalist movements with the norms and expectations of multiparty parliamentary democracy. The Irish revolutionaries' attempts to create a Gaelic, postcolonial state involved resolving tension between these two ideas. Smaller economically-driven parties such as the Labour and Farmers' parties...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:1526166275

ISBN13:9781526166272

Release Date:February 2023

Publisher:Manchester University Press

Length:264 Pages

Weight:1.20 lbs.

Dimensions:0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"

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History Political Science Politics & Social Sciences

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