Editing Fianna Fáil (section)

===20th century===
In the early 20th century, Fianna Fáil had a more explicitly working-class orientation. In 1926, Seán Lemass described the party as "a progressive republican party based on the actual conditions of the moment"<ref>{{cite news |last1=O'Loughlin |first1=Michael |title=Republicanism still a potent link between Fianna Fáil and Sinn Féin |url=https://www.irishtimes.com/opinion/republicanism-still-a-potent-link-between-fianna-f%C3%A1il-and-sinn-f%C3%A9in-1.4170582?mode=sample&auth-failed=1&pw-origin=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.irishtimes.com%2Fopinion%2Frepublicanism-is-still-the-potent-link-between-fianna-fail-and-sinn-f%25C3%25A9in-1.4170582 |newspaper=The Irish Times |access-date=12 February 2020 |archive-date=9 July 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200709024144/https://www.irishtimes.com/opinion/republicanism-still-a-potent-link-between-fianna-f%C3%A1il-and-sinn-f%C3%A9in-1.4170582?mode=sample&auth-failed=1&pw-origin=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.irishtimes.com%2Fopinion%2Frepublicanism-is-still-the-potent-link-between-fianna-fail-and-sinn-f%25C3%25A9in-1.4170582 |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name="Puirséil FF Evolution"/> while upon winning the [[1932 Irish general election]], newly elected Fianna Fáil TD [[Seán Moylan]] proclaimed that Fianna Fáil's win meant a victory of "the owners of the donkey and cart over the pony and trap class".<ref name="Ferriter Jan 2022"/> The Fianna Fáil party of the 1930s has been described as an economically [[social democratic]] one that sought to create an economically independent state ([[autarky]]) via protectionist policies, based on its [[Cultural nationalism|culturally nationalist]] thinking.<ref name="Puirséil FF Evolution">{{cite journal |last1=Puirséil |first1=Niamh |date=2016 |title=Fianna Fáil and the evolution of an ambiguous ideology |url=https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/07907184.2016.1269755?journalCode=fips20 |journal=Irish Political Studies |volume= 32|issue= |pages= 49–71|doi=10.1080/07907184.2016.1269755 |s2cid=152051248 |access-date=12 April 2022|url-access=subscription }}</ref>

During the leadership of Seán Lemass in the 1960s, Fianna Fáil began to utilise some [[Corporatism|corporatist]] policies (embracing the concept of '[[Social Partnership|social partnership]]'), taking some influence from [[Catholic social teaching]].<ref>{{Cite book|last=Finnegan|first=Richard B.|url=|title=Ireland: Historical Echoes, Contemporary Politics|date=2018-02-20|publisher=Routledge|isbn=978-0-429-96817-4|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal|last=Patterson|first=Henry|date=1988|title=Fianna Fáil and the Working Class: The Origins of the Enigmatic Relationship|url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/23196031|journal=Saothar|volume=13|pages=81–88|jstor=23196031|issn=0332-1169|access-date=10 December 2021|archive-date=10 December 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211210035640/https://www.jstor.org/stable/23196031|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|date=2003|title=Ireland as Catholic corporatist state: a historical institutional analysis of healthcare in Ireland|url=https://www.ul.ie/ppa/content/files/258567748.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211210205816/https://www.ul.ie/ppa/content/files/258567748.pdf |archive-date=2021-12-10 |url-status=live|journal=|via=University of Limerick}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|last=Roche|first=Bill|date=2008|title=Social Partnership: From Lemass to Cowen|url=https://www.ul.ie/iair/sites/default/files/2008%20Lecture%20by%20Bill%20Roche.pdf|journal=|via=UL|access-date=10 December 2021|archive-date=3 February 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220203074550/https://www.ul.ie/iair/sites/default/files/2008%20Lecture%20by%20Bill%20Roche.pdf|url-status=live}}</ref> It was also during Lemass' time that the party shifted heavily away from autarkic thinking and towards a firm belief in [[free trade]] and [[foreign direct investment]] in Ireland.<ref name="Puirséil FF Evolution"/>

In 1967, Jack Lynch described the party as "left of centre" while suggesting it was to the left of Fine Gael and Labour. However, during the [[1969 Irish general election]], the party ran [[red scare]] tactics against Labour after it began using the slogan "the seventies will be socialist!". As Fine Gael became more and more socially liberal in the 1970s under [[Garret FitzGerald]], the party reacted by embracing social conservatism and populism.<ref name="Budge"/><ref name="Puirséil FF Evolution"/> In the same time period, the emergence of [[the Troubles]] and the Arms Crisis of 1971 tested the party's nationalism, but despite these events, Fianna Fáil maintained their moderate culturally nationalist stance.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Ivory |first1=Gareth |date=Fall 1997 |title=Fianna Fail, Constitutional Republicanism, and the Issue of Consent: 1980–1996 |url=https://www.academia.edu/2941780 |journal=Irish-American Cultural Institute |volume=32 |issue=2–3 |pages=93–116 |doi= |access-date=12 April 2022}}</ref> In 1983, R. Ken Carty wrote of Fianna Fáil and [[Fine Gael]] that they were "heterogeneous in their bases of support, relatively undifferentiated in terms of policy or programme, and remarkably stable in their support levels".<ref name="x538">{{cite journal | last=Holsteyn | first=Joop van | title=Days of Blue Loyalty. The Politics of Membership of the Fine Gael Party | journal=Acta Politica | publisher=Springer Science and Business Media LLC | volume=39 | issue=1 | date=2004-03-17 | issn=0001-6810 | doi=10.1057/palgrave.ap.5500048 | pages=96–99 | quote=Ken Carty (1983, 1) was puzzled by the fact that one found parties 'heterogeneous in their bases of support, relatively undifferentiated in terms of policy or programme, and remarkably stable in their support levels'}}</ref> 

In the 1990s, Fianna Fáil was described as a [[Conservatism|conservative]] and [[Irish nationalism|nationalist]] party.<ref name="Banchoff1999" /><ref name="KourvetarisMoschonas1996" />