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Career Patterns in the Irish Political Elite

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 January 2009

A. S. Cohan
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In 1919, three years after the Easter Rising in Dublin, a revolutionary government was established in Ireland. This government, the Dail Eireann, was the forerunner of the Irish Free State that ultimately resulted from the Anglo-Irish Treaty of 1922. Slightly more than fifty years have elapsed since the union of Ireland and Great Britain was formally dissolved and, in that period of time, many changes have occurred in both the social and political systems of Ireland. Not the least of these changes has been the passing of one elite generation from the political scene and the emergence of another.

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British Journal of Political Science , Volume 3 , Issue 2 , April 1973 , pp. 213 - 228
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1973

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