- Location
- Beragh, Co Tyrone, Northern Ireland
Basically a refusal to acknowledge the authority of HM Government and Westminster over Northern Ireland. Though there is the suggestion that if JC got into government the oath of Allegiance would be modified to suit them.
Derives from the various factions within Republicanism in which some have reached an acceptance over the institutions of the state in both the Republic and Northern Ireland
There are still strands of Republicanism that refuse to recognise the institutions of the Republic of Ireland,(because they derive from legislation from Westminster) (They would hold the view the only legitimate legislature for "Ireland" was the first and Second Dail created by SF Candidates in the 1918 UK General Election refusing to go Westminster and holding their own gathering in Dublin in 1919, with the second never dissolving itself.
On the basis of these views, republican legitimatism argued that:
all Irish parliaments convened since the Second Dáil in 1921 are illegitimate as they were established by a piece of British legislation, the Government of Ireland Act 1920
The First Dáil passed a resolution which provided that if enemy action ever succeeded in preventing the Dáil from functioning democratically, the Army (IRB/IRA etc) should have the power to proclaim an Emergency Government;
the 64 TDs who voted for the Anglo Irish Treaty in 1922 had violated their oath to the Irish Republic and abdicated their legitimacy;
The Second Dáil had never formally dissolved itself.
So thus you had the various IRAs created seeking to "legitimise" themselves by getting the blessing of sole surviving members of the First and Second Dail
indeed till the 1980s, Provisional SF practised absenteeism from Leinster House.
Derives from the various factions within Republicanism in which some have reached an acceptance over the institutions of the state in both the Republic and Northern Ireland
There are still strands of Republicanism that refuse to recognise the institutions of the Republic of Ireland,(because they derive from legislation from Westminster) (They would hold the view the only legitimate legislature for "Ireland" was the first and Second Dail created by SF Candidates in the 1918 UK General Election refusing to go Westminster and holding their own gathering in Dublin in 1919, with the second never dissolving itself.
On the basis of these views, republican legitimatism argued that:
all Irish parliaments convened since the Second Dáil in 1921 are illegitimate as they were established by a piece of British legislation, the Government of Ireland Act 1920
The First Dáil passed a resolution which provided that if enemy action ever succeeded in preventing the Dáil from functioning democratically, the Army (IRB/IRA etc) should have the power to proclaim an Emergency Government;
the 64 TDs who voted for the Anglo Irish Treaty in 1922 had violated their oath to the Irish Republic and abdicated their legitimacy;
The Second Dáil had never formally dissolved itself.
So thus you had the various IRAs created seeking to "legitimise" themselves by getting the blessing of sole surviving members of the First and Second Dail
indeed till the 1980s, Provisional SF practised absenteeism from Leinster House.
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