Fianna Fáil, Irish Republicanism and the Northern Ireland Troubles, 1968-2005

Fianna Fáil: The Republican Party has been a party defined by its emphasis on partition and its ideological commitment to reunification. Through its use of anti-partitionist rhetoric it has been the most vociferous political party in the Republic of Ireland on Northern Ireland. Its emotive and divisive response to the outbreak of the Troubles in Northern Ireland was seen most clearly in the Arms Crisis of 1970 which threatened to destroy the party and the stability of the State in the Republi…