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This book examines the birth of the Irish state and sets it in its European historical context.
The process of democratic nation-making reached full fruition while a vicious civil war was raging, ostensibly fought over points of political principle but actually deciding whether Ireland was to be ruled by popular majority will or by a virtuous but unaccountable minority.
Garvin argues that militant republicanism always lacked popular, democratic legitimacy. The mainstream Irish nationalist tradition was moderate and realistic, and it was this nation-building tradition that triumphed in 1922. The stability and good order of the Irish state owes much to this victory.
ISBN/EAN | 9780717139699 |
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Author | Tom Garvin |
Publisher | Gill Books |
Publication date | 20 May 2007 |
Format | Paperback |
1922 : The Birth Of Irish Democracy
This book examines the birth of the Irish state and sets it in its European historical context.