3rd-sinn fein party - 1923-1926

Abstract

The recent commemoration of the fiftieth anniversaries of the Easter Rising and the meeting o f the First Dail firearm have done much to focus attention on this stormy watershed of modern Irish history and politics. The Civil War, for so long a topic of polemical argument, is becoming the subject o f serious study and unbiased analysis. So far, however, remarkably little original research has been undertaken in the shadowy area of history and politics stretching from the end of the Civil War to the emergence of Fianna Fail as a constitutional opposition party in Leinster House. The history of the post-1923 era obviously needs a considerable amount of research of a primary sort; and on top of that, additional synthesis in order to put the raw material in proper arrangement and perspective.