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In 1967, historian Kevin B. Nowlan assessed W. T. Cosgrave’s final years in power. He concluded that Cosgrave’s last government ‘maintained a rather fixed political course, which could easily give the impression of an unbending rigidity, a too ready acceptance of the conventional, especially in relation to economic policy and social reform’.
‘[Our] policy has been, and will be, to hold the scales even between all interests, to assist each without injury to the others’. 1
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Farrell, M. (2017). ‘Holding the Scales Even’: Cumann na nGaedheal’s Final Years in Power. In: Party Politics in a New Democracy. Palgrave Studies in Political History. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-63585-9_6
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