MIKE CRONIN is Senior Research Fellow in History at De Montfort University, Leicester. He was the author of The Blueshirts and Irish Politics, Sport and Nationalism in Ireland: Gaelic Games, Soccer and Identity, and editor of The Failure of British Fascism: the Far Right and the Fight for Political Recognition. JOHN M. REGAN is a Research Fellow at Merton College, Oxford. He was formerly the Irish Government Senior Scholar at Hertford College, Oxford and a holder of a British Academy post-doctoral research fellowship also at Wolfson College. His Counter-revolution and Settlement in Independent Ireland, 1921-36 is to be published in 1999.

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• Glossary Notes on the Contributors Introduction; M.Cronin & J.Regan Ireland's Last Home Rule Generation: The Decline of Constitutional Nationalism in Ireland, 1916-30; S.Paseta The Politics of Utopia: Party Politics, Executive Autonomy and the New Administration; J.Regan The Enigma of Fianna Fail: Party Strategy, Social Classes and the Politics of Hegemony; R.Dunphy Socialist Republicanism in Independent Ireland, 1922-49; R.English The Unpopular Front: Catholic Revival and Irish Cultural Identity, 1932-48; S.Riordan Social Catholicism and the Social Question in Post-independence Ireland: The Challenge to the Fiscal System; F.O.Driscoll Golden Dreams, Harsh Realities: Economics and Informal Empire in the Irish Free State; M.Cronin New Ireland, Old Empire and the Outside World, 1922-49: The Strange Evolution of a 'Dictionary Republic'; D.Lowry Trinity College Dublin and the New Political Order; P.Dempsey Index

MIKE CRONIN is Senior Research Fellow in History at De Montfort University, Leicester. He was the author of The Blueshirts and Irish Politics, Sport and Nationalism in Ireland: Gaelic Games, Soccer and Identity, and editor of The Failure of British Fascism: the Far Right and the Fight for Political Recognition. JOHN M. REGAN is a Research Fellow at Merton College, Oxford. He was formerly the Irish Government Senior Scholar at Hertford College, Oxford and a holder of a British Academy post-doctoral research fellowship also at Wolfson College. His Counter-revolution and Settlement in Independent Ireland, 1921-36 is to be published in 1999.

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• Glossary Notes on the Contributors Introduction; M.Cronin & J.Regan Ireland's Last Home Rule Generation: The Decline of Constitutional Nationalism in Ireland, 1916-30; S.Paseta The Politics of Utopia: Party Politics, Executive Autonomy and the New Administration; J.Regan The Enigma of Fianna Fail: Party Strategy, Social Classes and the Politics of Hegemony; R.Dunphy Socialist Republicanism in Independent Ireland, 1922-49; R.English The Unpopular Front: Catholic Revival and Irish Cultural Identity, 1932-48; S.Riordan Social Catholicism and the Social Question in Post-independence Ireland: The Challenge to the Fiscal System; F.O.Driscoll Golden Dreams, Harsh Realities: Economics and Informal Empire in the Irish Free State; M.Cronin New Ireland, Old Empire and the Outside World, 1922-49: The Strange Evolution of a 'Dictionary Republic'; D.Lowry Trinity College Dublin and the New Political Order; P.Dempsey Index

MIKE CRONIN is Senior Research Fellow in History at De Montfort University, Leicester. He was the author of The Blueshirts and Irish Politics, Sport and Nationalism in Ireland: Gaelic Games, Soccer and Identity, and editor of The Failure of British Fascism: the Far Right and the Fight for Political Recognition. JOHN M. REGAN is a Research Fellow at Merton College, Oxford. He was formerly the Irish Government Senior Scholar at Hertford College, Oxford and a holder of a British Academy post-doctoral research fellowship also at Wolfson College. His Counter-revolution and Settlement in Independent Ireland, 1921-36 is to be published in 1999.

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• Glossary Notes on the Contributors Introduction; M.Cronin & J.Regan Ireland's Last Home Rule Generation: The Decline of Constitutional Nationalism in Ireland, 1916-30; S.Paseta The Politics of Utopia: Party Politics, Executive Autonomy and the New Administration; J.Regan The Enigma of Fianna Fail: Party Strategy, Social Classes and the Politics of Hegemony; R.Dunphy Socialist Republicanism in Independent Ireland, 1922-49; R.English The Unpopular Front: Catholic Revival and Irish Cultural Identity, 1932-48; S.Riordan Social Catholicism and the Social Question in Post-independence Ireland: The Challenge to the Fiscal System; F.O.Driscoll Golden Dreams, Harsh Realities: Economics and Informal Empire in the Irish Free State; M.Cronin New Ireland, Old Empire and the Outside World, 1922-49: The Strange Evolution of a 'Dictionary Republic'; D.Lowry Trinity College Dublin and the New Political Order; P.Dempsey Index