“The inevitable doom of the new All Ireland Forum…”
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The inevitable doom of the new All Ireland Forum can be seen in the fact that its two dominant southern participants, Fianna Fail and Fine Gael trace their histories to the original all Ireland Fora: the first and second Dails.
These were the only attempt backed by the majority of the Irish people to build such a constituent assembly for the whole of Ireland.Significantly, unlike such a pre’ vious assembly, it did not split seriously for nearly three years, until, in the Treaty vote, a majority supported the moderate side of peace with Britain and effectively, partition.
These first Dails were composed of members of one party(apart from the unofficial Labour Deputy, Richard Corish, in the second). This was the original Sinn fein .It had started a a party representing the capitalist aims of the artisans in the underdeveloped economy of most of Ireland. The national bourgeoisie wanted simply contro] over the colonial administration to prune it and place themselves in its jobs, It supported the federal scheme, Home Rule, partly as a concession to the skilled workers.. These, along with a handful of capitalists outsi Dublin suffered most from the lack of economic opportunity that resulted from [reland’s colonial status. Since this restricted the development of a proletariat; and limited mass support for socialism, the artisans politi ics turned towards capitalist protectionism: a republic in which the economic policies were those of Sinn fein’s founder, the printer, These perspectives were a policy for Irish Capitalism. Griffith soon broke with the Socialists in the party and denounced militant trade unionism in the name of economic development. hie alienated others by trying to do a deal with a breakaway Home Rule group. By [916, his party had only [OO mem bers in Dublin. Then,after the Rising, many Volunteers, looking for a political organisation took the