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    Destiny of the Soldiers – Fianna Fáil, Irish Republicanism and the IRA, 1926–1973: The History of Ireland’s Largest and Most Successful Political Party
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    Destiny of the Soldiers – Fianna Fáil, Irish Republicanism and the IRA, 1926–1973: The History of Ireland’s Largest and Most Successful Political Party
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    Destiny of the Soldiers – Fianna Fáil, Irish Republicanism and the IRA, 1926–1973: The History of Ireland’s Largest and Most Successful Political Party
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    Destiny of the Soldiers – Fianna Fáil, Irish Republicanism and the IRA, 1926–1973: The History of Ireland’s Largest and Most Successful Political Party

    By Donnacha Ó Beacháin

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    Incisive, engaging and thought-provoking, Destiny of the Soldiers charts Fianna Fáil’s political and ideological evolution from its revolutionary origins through extended periods in office.

    Fianna Fáil is Ireland’s largest political party and one of the most successful parties in any democracy in the world. Until recent years, it has been almost constantly in government since 1932..

    This fascinating volume argues that Fianna Fáil’s goals, foremost among them the reunification of the national territory as a republic, became the means to bind its members together, to gain votes, and to legitimise its role in Irish society. But the official ideological goals concealed what became merely a basic desire to rule. The balance sheet, consequently, became one of votes won or lost rather than goals achieved or postponed.

    Destiny of the Soldiers assesses Fianna Fáil’s changing attitudes towards its parent party, Sinn Féin, and the IRA, and how these changes affected Fianna Fáil’s policies towards Northern Ireland. Never forgetting its republican roots, Fianna Fáil has at times been both troubled and conflicted by them. This was especially the case in the late 1960s and early 1970s when the Northern Ireland Troubles posed a challenge for all rhetorical republicans. At that time, Fianna Fáil found itself the governing party of a state whose legitimacy it had originally rejected: the consequent tensions nearly tore it apart.

    Destiny of the Soldiers is the first survey of the party’s history which focuses on these unresolved tensions.

    Destiny of the Soldiers: Table of Contents
    1. Legion of the Rearguard: The revolutionary origins of Fianna Fáil, 1920–23
    2. Removing the straitjacket of the Republic, 1923–6
    3. Fianna Fáil—the Republican Party
    4. Fianna Fáil and the Irish Free State, 1927–31
    5. Election Time, 1931–2
    6. Fianna Fáil in power, 1932–8
    7. Revolutionary crocodile, 1939–40
    8. The showdown, 1940–46
    9. A new republican rival, 1946–8
    10. Drift, 1948–59
    11. Approach to crisis, 1960–69
    12. ‘The moment of truth’, 1969–71
    13. Doomsday, 1971–3
    14. Conclusions: The destiny of the Soldiers
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherGill Books
    Release dateJun 21, 2011
    ISBN9780717151660
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    Destiny of the Soldiers – Fianna Fáil, Irish Republicanism and the IRA, 1926–1973: The History of Ireland’s Largest and Most Successful Political Party
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    Donnacha Ó Beacháin

    Dr Donnacha Ó Beacháin is a faculty member of the School of Law and Government, Dublin City University, where he lectures on post-Soviet politics and Irish foreign policy.

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      I would highly recommend this book to other readers both for its thorough examination of the subject matter and original ideas. The book also boasts a massive bibliography, containing useful suggestions for further reading, and each chapter is also thoroughly referenced through use of many footnotes. I don't agree with all of the ideas postulated by the author, or all of his political positions advanced throughout the book, but I am glad I purchased it and have no hesitation in recommending it to others. In the literature to date on Fianna Fáil this book occupies a unique position by analysing the changing relationship between the party and the IRA throughout the book, rather than as one event of a broader Fianna Fáil history such as Richard Dunphy's work.