From the National League to Cumann na nGaedheal?

2020 ◽  
pp. 115-138
Author(s):  
Martin O'Donoghue
Keyword(s):  
Leadership Style ◽  
Modus Operandi ◽  
Old Irish ◽  
New Parties ◽  
Geographic Factors ◽  
Pressure Point ◽  
Fianna Fail ◽  
National League ◽  
Great Pressure ◽  
Cumann Na Ngaedheal

This chapter analyses the period from the National League’s defeat in the September 1927 election to the next great pressure point which forced many old Irish Party followers into new parties: the 1932 general election. It assesses the growing rapprochement between Cumann nan Gaedheal and former Irish Party followers, particularly Capt. Redmond’s decision to join the party in 1931.However, in examining the afterlives of National League politicians, this chapter also scrutinizes the few who joined Fianna Fáil and compares elements of the party’s modus operandi with that of the IPP including de Valera’s leadership style and Fianna Fáil’s remarkable facility for party organisation. Finally, this chapter illustrates why some supporters of the old Irish Party and Ancient Order of Hibernians remained independent, citing economic, organisational and geographic factors and examining the elections of James Dillon and Frank MacDermot.

A Legacy Party? The Irish National League, 1926–7

2020 ◽  
pp. 81-114
Author(s):  
Martin O'Donoghue
Keyword(s):  
Life Span ◽  
Coalition Government ◽  
Election Campaigns ◽  
Home Rule ◽  
Short Life ◽  
Old Irish ◽  
New Parties ◽  
Short Life Span ◽  
Fianna Fail ◽  
National League

This chapter provides the first dedicated study of the Irish National League, founded by former MPs Capt. Redmond and Thomas O’Donnell in 1926. Analysing the categorisation of the League as a ‘mobilising’ party, this chapter argues that it was, in fact, a ‘legacy party’, illustrating how the League drew on the old Irish Party personnel, slogans and ephemera. While statistical data highlights the home rule connections of TDs standing for each party, there is also analysis of the League’s controversial actions during the tumultuous summer of 1927, examining two general election campaigns, the aftermath of Kevin O’Higgins’s assassination and the League’s failed attempt to form a coalition government with Labour following the entry of Fianna Fáil into the Dáil. It is argued that despite its short life span, the League was significant in Irish politics as it not only came within a casting vote of government but helped to accelerate the assimilation of former home rule supporters into new parties.

scholarly journals Protection Versus Free Trade in the Free State Era: The Finance Attitude

2019 ◽  
Vol 46 (1) ◽  
pp. 3-21 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anna Devlin ◽  
Frank Barry
Keyword(s):  
Economic Development ◽  
Free Trade ◽  
Costs And Benefits ◽  
Strong Continuity ◽  
Trade Restrictions ◽  
Selective Protection ◽  
Self Sufficiency ◽  
Fianna Fail ◽  
Cumann Na Ngaedheal ◽  
Industry And Commerce

Belief in the benefits of industrial protection had long been a cornerstone of nationalist ideology. Cumann na nGaedheal followed a policy of selective protection while Fianna Fáil was ideologically committed not just to import-substituting industrialisation but to as high a degree of self-sufficiency as possible. The Departments of Finance and Industry and Commerce differed sharply on the costs and benefits of trade restrictions. This article explores the perspective of the Department of Finance and in particular that of J. J. McElligott, Assistant Secretary from 1923 and Secretary of the Department from 1927 to 1953. It demonstrates the strong continuity between his position and that of T. K. Whitaker, who became Secretary in 1956 and whose 1958 report on Economic Development is widely credited with providing the intellectual foundation for the trade liberalisation process of the following decades.

Digesting Decolonization

2019 ◽  
pp. 61-125
Author(s):  
Brendan O’Leary
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Northern Ireland ◽  
Nation Building ◽  
State Building ◽  
Second World War ◽  
World War ◽  
Long Run ◽  
Fianna Fail ◽  
Cumann Na Ngaedheal ◽  
Second World

This chapter examines how and when the Irish Free State went from partial to full political decolonization. It argues that Collins’s stepping-stone theory of the Treaty of 1921 would be proved correct, but that de Valéra and Childers and their allies also correctly observed the deficiencies of that treaty. The fate of southern Protestants is examined. The wilder allegations of genocide and ethnic expulsion are demonstrated to be without merit; their twentieth-century story is mostly one of integration and assimilation. Fianna Fáil’s program of constitutional transformation is traced and its significance for Northern Ireland evaluated. The Irish Free State’s state-building and consolidation of its sovereignty were diplomatic accomplishments of both Cumann na nGaedheal and Fianna Fáil governments. The program of Irish state-building clashed with the aspirations behind all-Ireland nation-building. The “economic war” of the 1930s and the Anglo-Irish Agreements of 1938 are surveyed, before the decisions of de Valéra’s cabinet regarding neutrality in the Second World War and the supposed British offer of reunification are interpreted for their long-run significance for Northern Ireland.

The Irish National Movement

Rebel Power ◽  
2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter Krause
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
New Order ◽  
Irish Republican Army ◽  
Sinn Fein ◽  
Leading Role ◽  
National Movement ◽  
Fianna Fail ◽  
The Government ◽  
Cumann Na Ngaedheal ◽  
Movement Structure

This chapter analyzes the Irish national movement. It discusses the most striking feature: the clockwork-like actions of republican groups that, while challengers, escalated violence, shunned elections, and denounced negotiated compromise; but after they became the leader or hegemon of the movement (or movement wing), shunned violence, participated in elections, and negotiated compromises. Despite their intense criticism of each other, this is the story of Cumann na nGaedheal (later Fine Gael), Fianna Fáil, the , Official Irish Republican Army/Official Sinn Féin, and the Provisional IRA/Sinn Féin over the course of the twentieth century. In every case in which abstentionism (the refusal to take seats in the government) was ended, what changed was not what the group ideologically said had to change but, rather, the movement structure and that the group would be guaranteed a leading role in the new order.

Gender Stereotypes Reflect Sex Differences in Leadership Style

2001 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mary C. Johannesen-Schmidt ◽  
Claartje J. Vinkenburg ◽  
Alice H. Eagly
Keyword(s):  
Sex Differences ◽  
Leadership Style ◽  
Gender Stereotypes

Who's your leader? Follower personality and leadership style preferences

2009 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel Winick ◽  
Ozgun Burcu Rodopman ◽  
Asli Goncu ◽  
Thomas R. Gordon ◽  
Russell E. Johnson
Keyword(s):  
Leadership Style ◽  
Style Preferences
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