Just to show how awkward us Irish are

Victor

Just to show how awkward us Irish are (see map at bottom of page), we have our own bracket, when most of Europe fitted into a more or less clear left / right categorization.

http://users.erols.com/mwhite28/euro1970.htm

And there is something 'poetic' about his map of countries that have had women heads of state.

http://users.erols.com/mwhite28/baberule.htm

Of course there are some very good maps on the rest of the site.

http://users.erols.com/mwhite28/20centry.htm

daveirl

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mike65

Interesting mini history lesson but why is Ireland not treated as part of the left-right spectrum?

Maybe an e-mail....

A few other errors on other maps like Ireland being defined as Prodestant on one and a monarchy on another.

Mike.

Victor

Originally posted by daveirl
Would both parties not fall in the who Christian Democrat category.

Not quite, they aren't as far right as say the Conservative in the UK. FF has a definite 'populist' (worker?) side to it, FG would be considered more liberal than FF and so on.

Originally posted by mike65
Interesting mini history lesson but why is Ireland not treated as part of the left-right spectrum?

As above, but primarily because they both spanned the centre. to a degree it was about personalities and style rather than pure political philosophy.

Originally posted by mike65
A few other errors on other maps like Ireland being defined as Prodestant on one and a monarchy on another.

On those maps it is part of the UK.