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30 Cards in this Set
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Sinn Fein Wilderness Years
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1926-66
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IRA campaign & increased SF support
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1955
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Sinn Fein Ideology 1905-21
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Irish political and economic Independence/ Irish Republic
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Sinn Fein Ideology 1922-26
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United Independent Irish Republic
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Sinn Fein Ideology 1969-74
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Socialist Versus Republican split
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Sinn Fein Ideology 1986
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United Independent Irish Republic aspiration
Abstentionism dismissed |
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1969/70 Sinn Fein Workers Party
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'Stikies' Official (Socialist) versus Provisional Sinn Fien Provisionals win and become Sinn Fein
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1974 Irish Republican Socialist Party
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split from SF over tactics
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1974 SF stance
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British troops out, end unionist veto, stop collusion, disband RUC and RIR, POWs released
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Bobby Sands elected
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1982
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1982 Sinn Fein Strategy
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Armalite and Ballot box
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1989 Dublin/Belfast freedom train
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hundreds of protestors take the train to protest IRA bombing of railway line
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Cumann na Gaedheal party platform
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defended institutions of the state
survival of liberal democracy moderate, realistic nationalism party of honesty and integrity |
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Origins of Fine Gael
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1932 Cumann na nGaedhael merges with National Center Party and ACA and becomes Fine Gail
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Eoin O'Duffy
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1932ish National Guard leader who was associated with corporatism and blackshirts. Oversaw creation of FG
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John Costello quote pro fascism
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"just as black shirts had been victorious in Italy & the 'Hitler shirts' have been victorious in Germany, so would the blue shirts be victorious in the Irish Free State"
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1973-7 FG-Labor Coalition
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Cosgrave crosses Dail to oppose contraceptive bill in 1974
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1977-90 FG Golden Age
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1981-FG/Labor coalition
Garret FitzGerald reorganizes party |
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Michael Noonan
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2001, took over as leader of FG from Bruton
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Fine Gail 2002 election results
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fucked up the ass, lose 23 seats
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Fine Gail Political Policy 2002-10
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evenhanded approach to NI
Against legalizing marijuana maintain neutrality limits on further integration (1/3 of FG see no policy difference with FF) |
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Fine Gail Economic Policy 1920-30
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anti protectionist
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Fine Gail Economic Policy 1930's
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lower public servants wages, increase tax
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Fine Gail Economic Policy 1964
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Just Society program, control of bank policies (radical)
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Fine Gail Economic Policy 1981
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Emergency budget, spending control
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Fine Gail economic policy 1982
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shoes tax, vote of no confidence in budget, tallaght strategy (FG would support FF economic policies as long as reasonable)
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Labour Party Origins
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1912 founded, 1918 abstained, 1922 comeback, 1927 labor led gov't due to 2 drunk TD's
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Labour Party Policy
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Social Democratic, pluralism, controlled economy, welfarist, NI coalition chameleon, skeptical of EU in the 1970's
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Green Party
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1989 won first seat. influenced by EU.
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Independents
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Either Rural, Conservatives or Urban populist left wing, anti Iraq War
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