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In 1926, Seán Lemass described the party as "a progressive republican party based on the actual conditions of the moment" [170] [171] while upon winning the 1932 Irish general election, newly elected Fianna Fáil TD Seán Moylan proclaimed that Fianna Fáil's win meant a victory of "the owners of the donkey and cart over the pony and trap ...
De Valera's cabinet in 1932, featuring many of the founding members of Fianna Fáil. The Fianna Fáil Party was founded by Éamon de Valera former Príomh Aire (prime minister & president of Dáil Éireann (April 1919–August 1921)) and President of the Republic (August 1921–January 1922) when he and a number of other members split from Sinn Féin.
Fianna Fáil has won the most seats in the Dáil (lower house of parliament) following the Republic of Ireland's general election. It won 48 seats while Sinn Féin - the main opposition party in ...
It was Lemass who encouraged him to stay and form a political party. In May, de Valera, assisted by Gerald Boland and Lemass, began to plan the new party, which became known as Fianna Fáil – The Republican Party. [note 2] Lemass travelled around the country trying to raise support for Fianna Fáil. The vast majority of Sinn Féin TDs were ...
More than half of the Irish parliament's seats are filled, with the Fianna Fáil party leading a tight three-way battle in the country's general election. With all 43 constituencies' initial ...
The Fianna Fail leader looks set for a return to the role of taoiseach – a position he held between 2020 and 2022. ... Micheal Martin has insisted it is time to “get on with the work” after ...
The party fielded a number of new, high-profile candidates, including Justin Keating, Conor Cruise O'Brien, David Thornley and Noël Browne. [4] The slogan "The Seventies will be Socialist" was popular with Labour supporters; however, Fianna Fáil played the "red card", linking the Labour Party with communism. The tactic worked successfully. [5]
It was a coalition of Fianna Fáil, with leader Albert Reynolds as Taoiseach, and the Labour Party, with leader Dick Spring as Tánaiste. It was the first time that these two parties were in government together; on each previous occasion Labour was in government, it was a junior coalition party with Fine Gael .