Irish Counter-Revolution, 1921-1936: Treatyite Politics and Settlement in Independent Ireland

Regan, John M.

ISBN 10: 0717129004 / ISBN 13: 9780717129003

Published by Gill & Macmillan, 2000

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Irish Counter-Revolution, 1921-1936: Treatyite Politics and Settlement in Independent Ireland
• Publisher: Gill & Macmillan
• Publication Date: 2000
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0717129004
• ISBN 13: 9780717129003
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket

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Synopsis

In 1921, Michael Collins argued that the Anglo-Irish treaty offered nationalists the freedom to achieve freedom. In 1926, his successor Kevin O'Higgins went to London with a proposal to have the British monarch crowned king of a reunited Ireland. In 1933, General Eoin O'Duffy, leader of the Blueshirts, advocated a corporatist state on the Fascist Italian model, within a republican settlement. All three men accepted the Treaty, and were leaders of the party which implemented it during the first decade of independence.
John M. Regan explains how such contrasting political views were reconciled within an evolving treatyite position. Regan argues that in order to understand the development of the new state and the establishment of a viable democracy it must first be recognised that a dedicated counter-revolution underpinned the post-revolutionary settlement.

About the Author

John M. Regan was the first Irish Government Senior Scholar at Hertford College Oxford in 1994. He was a British Academy Research Fellow at Wolfson College Oxford from 1995 to 1999.