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1922: The Birth Of Irish Democracy

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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 ... Read more

‘Tom Garvin ... delivers in full measure those qualities which those who know his earlier work will be looking for: new source material, a nose for the big issue, jugular-grasping directness of expression, fertile international comparisons, arresting and sometimes breathtakingly bold judgements. Since there are half a dozen of these to every page, even a big sample could hardly do justice to the impact of his writing.’ Charles Townshend, Irish Political Studies

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Product Details

Publisher
Gill Books
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Condition
New
Number of Pages
258
Place of Publication
Dublin, Ireland
ISBN
9780717139699
SKU
V9780717139699
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About Tom Garvin
Tom Garvin is Emeritus Professor of Politics at University College Dublin and an honorary research fellow at IBIS. His books include Nationalist Revolutionaries inIreland (1987), 1922: The Birth of Irish Democracy (1996), and Preventing theFuture:Why was Ireland so poor for so long? (2004). He is also the author of many articles and chapters on Irish and comparative politics. He is ... Read more

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