Cumann na nGaedheal

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Cumann na nGaedheal was a major early 20th-century Irish political party that governed the Irish Free State in its formative years following independence.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Irish political party
political party
alsoKnownAs CnaG
country Ireland
dissolved 1933
electoralStronghold middle-class voters
rural Ireland
focus international recognition of the Free State
law and order
state-building
formedGovernmentAfter Irish Civil War
foundedBy Arthur Griffith
Michael Collins
W. T. Cosgrave
pro-Treaty Sinn Féin members
governed Irish Free State
headquartersLocation Dublin
historicalEra interwar period
ideology Christian democracy
conservatism
pro-Treaty nationalism
implementedPolicy establishment of Garda Síochána
fiscal conservatism
public order and security measures
stabilisation of Irish Free State institutions
inception 1923
inGovernmentFrom 1923
inGovernmentUntil 1932
language English
Irish
lostPowerTo Fianna Fáil
lostPowerYear 1932
mergedInto Fine Gael
nameMeaning Society of the Gaels
notableLeader Kevin O'Higgins
W. T. Cosgrave
notableMember Desmond FitzGerald
Ernest Blythe
Patrick Hogan
operatedIn Irish Free State
opposedBy Fianna Fáil
anti-Treaty republicans
parliamentaryBody Dáil Éireann
partyColor blue
position centre-right
precededBy pro-Treaty Sinn Féin
linked to: pro-Treaty IRA
successor Fine Gael
supported Anglo-Irish Treaty

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Fine Gael foundedBy Cumann na nGaedheal
Fine Gael predecessor Cumann na nGaedheal
Pro-Treaty forces politicalWing Pro-Treaty Sinn Féin
linked to: Cumann na nGaedheal
Pro-Treaty forces politicalWing Cumann na nGaedheal
Eoin O'Duffy memberOf Cumann na nGaedheal
W. T. Cosgrave leaderOf Cumann na nGaedheal
W. T. Cosgrave memberOfPoliticalParty Cumann na nGaedheal
W. T. Cosgrave memberOfPoliticalParty Cumann na nGaedheal
subject linked to: Cosgrave
George Gavan Duffy memberOf Cumann na nGaedheal
Richard Mulcahy memberOf Cumann na nGaedheal
Army Comrades Association politicalAlignment pro-Cumann na nGaedheal
linked to: Cumann na nGaedheal
Army Comrades Association supportedGovernment Cumann na nGaedheal government
linked to: Cumann na nGaedheal
Fine Gael predecessor Cumann na nGaedheal
subject linked to: FG
Richard Mulcahy politicalParty Cumann na nGaedheal
Richard Mulcahy associatedWith Cumann na nGaedheal government
linked to: Cumann na nGaedheal
Blueshirts associatedWith Cumann na nGaedheal
Seán Mac Eoin memberOfPoliticalParty Cumann na nGaedheal
W. T. Cosgrave memberOfPoliticalParty Cumann na nGaedheal
subject linked to: Thomas
W. T. Cosgrave leaderOf Cumann na nGaedheal
subject linked to: Thomas
Philip Cosgrave memberOfPoliticalParty Cumann na nGaedheal
Philip Cosgrave parliamentaryGroup Cumann na nGaedheal parliamentary party
linked to: Cumann na nGaedheal
George Gavan Duffy memberOf Cumann na nGaedheal
subject linked to: Gavan Duffy
J. J. Walsh memberOfPoliticalParty Cumann na nGaedheal
Michael Leahy (Irish politician) memberOfPoliticalParty Cumann na nGaedheal
subject linked to: Michael Leahy
Ernest Blythe memberOf Cumann na nGaedheal
Desmond FitzGerald memberOf Cumann na nGaedheal
Society of the Gaels nativeName Cumann na nGaedheal
Society of the Gaels predecessor Sinn Féin (pro-Treaty wing)
linked to: Cumann na nGaedheal
Society of the Gaels shortName Cumann na nGaedheal
CnaG fullForm Cumann na nGaedheal
Army Comrades Association associatedWith Cumann na nGaedheal
subject linked to: ACA
Kevin O'Higgins memberOfPoliticalParty Cumann na nGaedheal
Patrick Hogan memberOfPoliticalParty Cumann na nGaedheal
Eoin MacNeill memberOf Cumann na nGaedheal
National Guard (Ireland) associatedWith Cumann na nGaedheal
Thomas F. O'Higgins memberOfPoliticalParty Cumann na nGaedheal
Seán Mac Eoin politicalParty Cumann na nGaedheal
subject linked to: Seán MacKeon