Table Of ContentIreland: The Politics of Independence, 1922–49
Also by Mike Cronin
SPORT AND NATIONALISM IN IRELAND: Gaelic Games, Soccer and Irish
Identity since 1884
THE BLUESHIRTS AND IRISH POLITICS
THE FAILURE OF BRITISH FASCISM: The Far Right and the Fight for Political
Recognition (editor)
Also by John M. Regan
THE IRISH COUNTER-REVOLUTION 1921–36: Treatyite Politics and Settlement
in Independent Ireland
Ireland: The Politics of
Independence, 1922–49
Edited by
Mike Cronin
Senior Research Fellow
De Montfort University
Leicester
and
John M. Regan
Research Fellow
Wolfson College
Oxford
First published in Great Britain 2000 by
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Ireland : the politics of independence, 1922–49 / edited by Mike
Cronin and John M. Regan.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
1. Ireland—Politics and government—1922–1949. I. Cronin, Mike.
II. Regan, John (John M.)
DA963.I735 1999
641.5082'2—dc21 99–40610
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Selection, editorial matter and Chapter 1 ©Mike Cronin and John M. Regan 2000
Chapter 3 ©John M. Regan 2000
Chapter 8 ©Mike Cronin 2000
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Contents
Abbreviations vii
Notes on the Contributors viii
1 Introduction: Ireland and the Politics of
Independence 1922–49, New Perspectives and
Re-considerations 1
John M. Regan and Mike Cronin
2 Ireland’s Last Home Rule Generation: The Decline of
Constitutional Nationalism in Ireland, 1916–30 13
Senia Paseta
3 The Politics of Utopia: Party Organisation, Executive
Autonomy and the New Administration 32
John M. Regan
4 The Enigma of Fianna Fáil: Party Strategy, Social Classes
and the Politics of Hegemony 67
Richard Dunphy
5 Socialist Republicanism in Independent Ireland, 1922–49 84
Richard English
6 The Unpopular Front: Catholic Revival and
Irish Cultural Identity, 1932–48 98
Susannah Riordan
7 Social Catholicism and the Social Question in
Independent Ireland: The Challenge to the Fiscal System 121
Finín O’ Driscoll
8 Golden Dreams, Harsh Realities: Economics and
Informal Empire in the Irish Free State 144
Mike Cronin
9 New Ireland, Old Empire and the Outside World,
1922–49: The Strange Evolution of a ‘Dictionary Republic’ 164
Donal Lowry
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10 Trinity College Dublin and the New Political Order 217
Pauric Dempsey
Index 233
Abbreviations
BL British Library
CAI Cork Archive Institute
NAI National Archive of Ireland, Dublin
NLI National Library of Ireland, Dublin
PRO Public Record Office, Kew
TCDL Trinity College Dublin Library
UCDA University College Dublin Archives
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Notes on the Contributors
Mike Cronin is Senior Research Fellow in History at De Montfort
University, Leicester. He is the author of The Blueshirts and Irish Politics
(Four Courts Press, 1997), Sport and Nationalism in Ireland: Gaelic Games,
Soccer and Identity (Four Courts Press, 1999) and editor of The Failure of
British Fascism. The Far Right and the Fight for Political Recognition
(Macmillan, 1996).
Pauric Dempseyis a doctoral student in the School of Modern History,
Queen’s University, Belfast, and researcher with the Dictionary of Irish
Biographybased at the Royal Irish Academy in Dublin.
Richard Dunphy is Senior Lecturer in Political Science and Social
Policy at the University of Dundee. He is the author of The Making of
Fianna Fail Power in Ireland (Oxford University Press, 1995) and has
published widely in edited volumes and academic journals on Irish and
European political culture.
Richard English is Reader in Politics at Queen’s University, Belfast. He
is the author of Radicals and the Republic: Socialist Republicanism in the
Irish Free State 1925–37 (Oxford University Press, 1995) and of Ernie
O’Malley: IRA Intellectual(Oxford University Press, 1998).
Donal Lowry is Senior Lecturer in History at Oxford Brookes
University. He has published widely on aspects of the connections
between Ireland and the British Empire. He is the editor of The South
African War(Manchester University Press, 1999).
Finín O’ Driscoll studied history at University College Cork and is a
doctoral student at Wolfson College, Cambridge.
Senia Paseta is a Fellow of St Hughes College, Oxford. She was for-
mally the Irish Government Senior Scholar at Hertford College,
Oxford, and a Junior Research Fellow at Merton College, Oxford. She
has written Before the Revolution: Nationalism, Social Change and Ireland’s
Catholic Élite 1879–1992(Cork University Press, 1999).
John M. Regan is a Research Fellow at Wolfson College, Oxford. He
was formally the Irish Government Senior Scholar at Hertford College,
Oxford, and a holder of a British Academy post-doctoral fellow at
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