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Fianna Fáil – The Republican Party, more commonly known as Fianna Fáil () is a centrist to centre-right Irish republican and conservative political party in Ireland, founded on 23 March 1926.
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Coalitions are typically formed of two or more parties always consisting of one of the two biggest parties, Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael, and one or more smaller parties or independent members of parliament.
Ireland has had consecutive coalition governments since the 1989 general election, excluding two brief Fianna Fáil minority administrations in 1994 and 2011 that followed the withdrawal of their coalition partners from government.
Before 1989, Fianna Fáil had opposed participation in coalition governments, preferring single-party minority government instead.
Irish coalition governments have traditionally been based on one of two large blocs in Dáil Éireann: either Fianna Fáil in coalition with smaller parties or independents, or Fine Gael and the Labour Party in coalition, sometimes with smaller parties.
The only exception to these traditional alliances was the first Government of the 27th Dáil, comprising Fianna Fáil and the Labour Party, which ruled between 1993 and 1994.
The Government of the 31st Dáil, though a traditional Fine Gael – Labour coalition, resembles a grand coalition, due to the collapse of Fianna Fáil to third place among parties in Dáil Éireann.
Canada, Ireland, and Portugal had right-wing political parties that defied categorization: the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada ; Fianna Fáil, Fine Gael, and Progressive Democrats in Ireland ; and the Social Democratic Party of Portugal.
In the past Dublin city was regarded as a stronghold for Fianna Fáil, however following the Irish local elections, 2004 the party was eclipsed by the centre-left Labour Party.
* Dick Roche ( Fianna Fáil, Ireland )
* Máire Geoghegan-Quinn ( Fianna Fáil, Ireland ): European Commissioner for Science and Research
Fine Gael is generally considered to be more on the political right in comparison to its more centrist rival, Fianna Fáil, but Fine Gael has never governed Ireland without the Labour Party, a social-democratic party on the centre-left of Irish politics.
This strategy was criticised by Fianna Fáil Minister for Children, Barry Andrews.
At the 2009 Local elections held on 5 June 2009, Fine Gael won 556 seats, surpassing Fianna Fáil which won 407 seats, and making Fine Gael the largest party of local government nationally.
Lowry, currently an independent TD, supported the Fianna Fáil – Green Party government in Dáil Éireann until March 2011.
Historically, Fianna Fáil has been seen as to the left of Fine Gael and to the right of the Labour Party and is generally seen as a classic " catch all " populist party-representing a broad range of people from all social classes with the belief in the coincidence of economic growth and social progress.
Fianna Fáil has led governments including parties of the centre-left ( Labour and the Green Party ) and of the centre-right ( the now-defunct Progressive Democrats ) and is often seen as a pragmatic party of the establishment.
Since the formation of the first Fianna Fáil government on 9 March 1932, the party has been in power for 61 of the last 79 years.
Fianna Fáil joined the European Liberal Democrat and Reform Party on 16 April 2009, and has sat in its associated Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe group in the European Parliament since the 2009 European elections.
Although the posts of leader and party president of Fianna Fáil are separate, with the former elected by the Parliamentary Party and the latter elected by the Ardfheis ( thus allowing for the posts to be held by different people, in theory ), in practice they have always been held by the one person.
The chart below shows a timeline of Fianna Fáil leaders and the Presidents of the Executive Council and Taoiseach.
The left bar shows all the leaders of Fianna Fáil, and the right bar shows the corresponding make-up of the Irish government at that time.
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* 2011 – In the Irish general election, the Fianna Fáil-led government suffers the worst defeat of a sitting government since the formation of the Irish state in 1921.
Party Chairman Dan Boyle and Déirdre de Búrca were nominated by the Taoiseach to Seanad Éireann after the formation of the Fianna Fáil – PD – Green Party government in 2007 and Niall Ó Brolcháin elected in December 2009.
* June 26 – Bertie Ahern is appointed as the 10th Taoiseach of the Republic of Ireland and Mary Harney is appointed as the 16th, and first female, Tánaiste, after their parties, Fianna Fáil and the Progressive Democrats respectively, win the 1997 General Election.
* March 23 – Éamon de Valera organizes Fianna Fáil in Ireland.
* November 10 – Seán Lemass retires as Taoiseach of the Republic of Ireland to be replaced in the role by fellow Fianna Fáil member Jack Lynch.
* February 18 – The Republic of Ireland general election gives a boost to Fianna Fáil.
* June 15 – In the Irish general election, the Fianna Fáil party, led by Taoiseach Charles Haughey, fails to win a majority.
* July 12 – In the Republic of Ireland, the Taoiseach Charles Haughey returns to power after Fianna Fáil forms a coalition with the Progressive Democrats.
* May 17 – In Ireland, The Fianna Fáil-Progressive Democrats coalition is re-elected.
* Fianna Fáil under Éamon de Valera ( 1932 – 37 )
He was the son of Cumhall – leader of the Fianna – and Muirne, daughter of the druid Tadg mac Nuadat who lived on the hill of Almu in County Kildare.
In The Pursuit of Diarmuid and Gráinne – one of the most famous stories of the cycle – the High King Cormac mac Airt promises the now aging Fionn his daughter Gráinne as his bride, but Gráinne falls instead for one of the Fianna, Diarmuid Ua Duibhne, and the pair runs away together with Fionn in pursuit.
* Collins, Stephen ( 2000 ) – The Power Game: Ireland Under Fianna Fáil ( Dublin: O ' Brien Press )
She stood, unsuccessfully, as a Fianna Fáil candidate in the Dublin South – East constituency at the 1987 general election, receiving 2, 243 votes ( 5. 9 %).
While living in Raheny, Haughey was first elected to the Dáil as a Fianna Fáil TD at the 1957 general election for the Dublin North – East constituency.
This became known as Fianna Fáil – The Republican Party.
In 1948, partly due to its own increasing isolation and also due to a republican backlash against its anti-IRA policies ( which during the Emergency had seen the execution of IRA prisoners – in part due to IRA links with the Nazis ), which had produced a rival republican party, Clann na Poblachta, Fianna Fáil lost power.
The defining event which made up his mind was the news that Fianna Fáil had lost two by-elections in his native Cork ( Cork City and Cork North – East, both on 7 November ).
Fianna and Republican
Donaghy had been a member of Fianna Éireann, an IRA-linked Republican youth movement.
** Fianna Fáil, a centrist Irish party also known as the Republican Party
In more recent history, the name Fianna Éireann has been used by a number of Irish Republican organisations.
In support of this, the Dublin Brigade's Fianna Éireann marched to The Smithfield where they were reviewed by senior Republican leaders.
When the Free State started to execute Republican prisoners, the first to be shot were four young men who had left Na Fianna to join the Republican Army.
For years he posed as a leading Fianna officer and Republican.
There was a general reorganisation of the Republican Movement when the prisoners were all released by 1947. The IRA took Na Fianna under its wing.
At this time New Recruits Like Inchicore Republican John McGrath Joined Fianna Eireann, He would go on to be a high Ranking Member of Fianna Eireann. There was no one place that Na Fianna could claim as their Headquarters, and they depended on the use of old buildings that were in Republican ownership, or owned by Republican sympathisers.
Republican commemorations were constantly being held and Na Fianna was obliged to turn out in full to them.
The Republican Sinn Féin-linked Na Fianna Éireann get ready to march at Bodenstown in 2003
Following the 1969 / 70 split in the Irish Republican Army and Sinn Féin, two organisations claiming the title of Fianna Éireann emerged.
Another extant Fianna group is linked to the 32 County Sovereignty Movement and allegedly to the Real Irish Republican Army.
The Na Fianna Éireann linked to Republican Sinn Féin claims to be the legitimate Na Fianna Éireann on the basis of Irish republican legitimatism.
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