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Sat 03 Mar 2009Reshaping republicanism
POLITICS:Sinn Féin and the Politics of Left Republicanism By Eoin Ó Broin, Pluto Press, 343 pp, £18.99 - THIS IMPRESSIVE and provocative book has at its heart one central question: “Why is the history of left republicanism characterised by failure?” For the left has produced some of Irish republicanism’s most talented figures, from the fabulously impressive James Connolly to the mischievously brilliant Peadar O’Donnell – not to mention key members of the Provisional IRA’s intellectual wing.
So why has the history of this tradition been so lacking in success?
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