Mick Clifford: The past for Fianna Fáil was glorious, the future bulges with uncertainty

From civil war origins to decades of dominance, the party’s evolution reflects Ireland’s shifting political and economic landscape

100 years of Fianna Fáil.

The two men stepped out of Rathmines Town Hall, defeated, or at least repelled. 

It was March 1926, and Éamon de Valera had just been rejected by the party he led.