Republic of Ireland political party, founded by the Irish nationalist Éamon
de Valera in 1926, and led since 2008 by Brian Cowen. A broad-based party, it is conservative socially and economically, and generally right of centre. It was the governing party in the Republic of Ireland 193248, 195154, 195773, 197781, 1982, 198794 (from 1993 in coalition with Labour), and from 1997. Its official aims include the establishment of a united and completely independent all-Ireland republic.
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