Land and politics in independent Ireland, 1923-48: the case for a re-appraisal

Abstract

The primary aim of this article is to suggest that such traditional assumptions are fundamentally flawed. By focusing upon the administrative periods of Cumann na nGaedheal (1923-32) and Fianna Fail (1932-48), it argues the case that there is a need to reassess the centrality of the land question to both national and local politics after independence