National Centre Party (Ireland)

The National Centre Party (or short: Centre Party, Irish to Lár - Pháirtí Náisiúnta ) a political party was at the time of the Irish Free State in the 1930s.

The Centre Party was founded in late 1932 and was originally called the National Farmers and Ratepayers League ( National Association of farmers and landowners ). Among the best known members of the party were the leader Frank MacDermott and James Dillon, son of John Dillon, former leader of the Irish Parliamentary Party. In the general election in 1933 the party won seven seats already, although the choice only took place one month after the founding of the Party.

The National Centre Party merged with Cumann na nGaedheal and the Army Comrades Association ( Blue Shirts) in September 1933 for Fine Gael, the main opposition party of today. MacDermott and a few other party members were against the merger. While MacDermott Fianna Fáil joined, as a candidate, the other mostly as independents.

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