Editing Democratic Programme (section)

==The debate on its practicality==
[[Brian Farrell (broadcaster)|Brian Farrell]] felt that the Democratic Programme "did not represent the social and economic ideals of the first Dáil. Most of its members had not read the document in advance; the few who had seen it in draft form were reluctant enough to subscribe to it and there was a last minute redrafting ... only hours before the Dáil met."<ref> B. Farrell, The creation of the Dáil (Dublin 1994) pp61-75.</ref>

{{citation needed span|date=October 2023|Father Michael O'Kennedy, prominent in the rise of Sinn Féin from 1917, later said of the social and redistributive aspects that "It is a pity to mix up Sinn Féin in that land question. Of necessity questions of land, food and industries turn up, but all are of secondary importance and none must obscure our objective."}}