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Irish democracy is a deviant case in the context of interwar Europe. A small, peripheral ‘island behind an island’ (Jean Blanchard), Ireland emerged into statehood in 1921 after a long period of British rule. The country’s path to independence was by no means smooth, being strewn with dissension, violence and internecine strife, yet at no time was Irish democracy itself seriously in danger. This was due to an historically unique set of circumstances which influenced both the content and the context of Irish politics and which partially isolated the country from the mainstream of modern European development. Ireland was thus largely shielded from the socioeconomic, intellectual and political changes of the 1920s and 1930s.
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Zink, A. (2000). Ireland: Democratic Stability without Compromise. In: Berg-Schlosser, D., Mitchell, J. (eds) Conditions of Democracy in Europe, 1919–39. Advances in Political Science: An International Series. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780333993774_11
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