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  • Radical or Redundant?

    Minor Parties in Irish Politics

    by Liam Weeks ...
    While the type of small political party In Ireland has varied, their fate, it seems, has not. Although some enjoy a brief time in the sun, termination is the long-term prospects for all minor parties. The usual pattern is a speedy ascent, an impact on the political system including a time in government, followed by a prolonged termination. This book examines this pattern of evolution for minor, or ... Read more

    $19.49 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Birth of a State

    The Anglo-Irish Treaty

    by Mícheál Ó Fathartaigh, Liam Weeks ...
    The Irish state came into being as a result of the Anglo-Irish Treaty of 1921. Signed by a Sinn Féin delegation and the British government at 10 Downing Street in the early hours of 6 December that year, the Treaty was the culmination of both a revolutionary movement that had begun in the previous decade and of centuries of separate nationalist attempts to gain autonomy from the United Kingdom ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • Independents in Irish party democracy

    by Liam Weeks ...
    This book examines the phenomenon of the independent politician, believed to be extinct in most political systems. It is very much alive and well in Ireland, and has experienced a considerable resurgence in recent years. Independents won a record number of seats in 2016 and had three ministers appointed to cabinet. This presence is very unusual from a comparative perspective, and there are more ... Read more

    $22.29 USD

  • The Treaty

    Debating and Establishing the Irish State

    Edited by Liam Weeks, Mícheál Ó Fathartaigh ...
    What exactly did the split over the Anglo-Irish Treaty of 1921 actually mean? We know it both established the independent Irish state and that Ireland would not be a fully sovereign republic and provided for the partition of Northern Ireland.The Treaty was ratified 64 votes to 57 by the Sinn Fein members of the Revolutionary Dail Eireann, splitting Sinn Fein irrevocably and leading to the Irish ... Read more

    $10.49 USD

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  • A Nation and Not a Rabble

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  • Nineteenth-Century Britain

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  • Sean Lemass: The Enigmatic Patriot

    The Definitive Biography of Ireland's Great Modernising Taoiseach

    by John Horgan ...
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  • Between Two Hells

    The Irish Civil War

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  • The Impossible Office?

    The History of the British Prime Minister

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