PROGRESSIVE DEMOCRATS

conservative political party founded as a result of a split within Ireland's major party, Fianna Fil. Michael Marsh Additional reading Dick Walsh, Des O'Malley: A Political Profile (1986), is a short biography of the party's founder, written just after the party was launched. Tom Lyne, The Progressive Democrats, Irish Political Studies, vol. 2 (1987), is a brief academic account of the party's early days.