Callac Cananach
Callac Cananach | |
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| Born | September 20, 1862 |
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| Nationality | Fhainnin |
| Citizenship | Fhainnin |
| Alma mater | Sathlagen Technical Institute |
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| Relatives | Gwynnyth Cananach (mother), Darragh Cananach (father), Maria Frynwyrth (wife), Beth Cananach (sister), Gladys Cananach (sister) |
Callac Cananach was a statesman, bureaucrat, and politician of Faneria, and Despot of the Republic of Faneria from 1909-1925. He founded the National Republican Party of Faneria, later called the Central Republicans, and was instrumental in organizing the republican movement in his country and establishing Cananachan Republicanism, the central ideology of the Republic of the Fhainn.
Early Life
Callac Cananach was born the oldest of three in the riverside community of Cavan Dún to a Catholic couple, Gwynnyth and Darragh Cananach. His childhood was often described as unremarkable, with Callac describing it in his personal writings as "a dull affair... full of so many wonderful things I could not do due to my stature and people who had no time to answer all my questions..." His youngest sister died during an outbreak of cholera when he was twelve in 1874, profoundly impacting his developing views. The outbreak was part of the last significant wave of the disease before a cholera vaccine was developed in 1881, which led to a sense of bitterness that would color his views on the monarchy and vestigial aristocracy of Faneria as a result of the complete non-response of the government towards the outbreak, leaving the treatment to be distributed by the private market.
At 15, Callac was taken on as a shopkeep's apprentice, and gained practical experience in budgeting and records. He worked through and after his public education until he could afford to apply for universities, being accepted at the Sathlagen Technical Institute's School of Economics and gaining a scholarship under the Marcus Foundation, funded by Faena Chemical-Electric (then Faena Chemical Production Co.) on contract to work for a minimum of four years as comptroller at the company's sulfa plant in Sathlagen after schooling.
During his schooling, Cananach joined the North Levantia branch of the World Socialist Party, attending meetings and discussing literature and theory on economic systems and representative government. He later broke ties in late 1886
Military Career
At the outbreak of war on February 18th, 1988 with Fiannria, general conscription took effect, with Callac being counted as an economically noteworthy and thus draft-immune person. At 25 years of age, his contract with FCPC had expired the year prior, and Cananach signed up for the position of quartermaster of the 113th Royal Infantry Regiment due to his cousin Collin Macnyth being conscripted into the 113th. He was trained as Leftenant-Quartermaster of the 95th Artillery Regiment for a month, arriving to the front in May mere weeks before the armistice. In the final days of the war, his regiment took part in the disastrous Gaoth Offensive, with the regiment's headquarters seeing direct combat after the Army of the North was cut off and captured by the Fiannrian army. Cananach refused to speak of his personal combat experiences beyond acknowledging his status as a veteran, repeatedly downplaying his role as being "nothing but a bureaucrat with a rifle". Cananach's cousin was killed in the fighting along with 514 others of the regiment's eight hundred men, as the 113th endured significant artillery bombardment and skirmishing on the southern flank of the Army of the North. Cananach reportedly suffered no physical injuries.
After the war, Cananach, like many in the army, received an honorable discharge and returned to his prewar job; however, the loss of significant territories along the Vandarch coast caused a dramatic economic downturn along with the loss of connection with many peoples' family members in the territories ceded to Fiannria. Common among the public was the idea that the *Rih* had surrendered as soon as the war he started had turned against Faneria, signing a disproportionate peace. In fact, the *Rih* had been captured during the same offensive Cananach participated in, and had been forced to sign a humiliating peace treaty at riflepoint. Cananach's own job was secure, but he devoted a significant proportion of his time to feverishly writing his first work, Crown of Bayonets.
Political Activism and Early Writing
teindun factory riots here
Crown of Bayonets was never officially published, but gained him some recognition in Socialist and Republican circles. In 1890, Cananach joined the Free Society of Faneria, which sought to model the Fiannrian republic as the goal of slow political reform; however, the group was too passive for Cananach's views and he founded his own group, the Republican Front, along with two dozen fellow veterans at a meeting at Lar Dún. The group swelled around the idea of preparing for the long-planned voting reforms promised by Faneria's 1830 Constitution, which included a 1900 deadline for allowing landed men to vote for their provincial governors, or Vicars, and expanding the powers of the Senate, which was in effect a powerless body at the time. The group would rapidly establish political power and attempt to form a centrist party aimed at removing the powers of the *Rih* by degrees, leaving the royal family a figurehead without considerable say in state affairs eventually. The group explicitly rejected Socialist ideology's redistributive tenets, but embraced cooperation with Socialist parties due to convenience and a general acceptance of some form of welfare and general anti-aristocracy sentiment. Opinions on economic elites in the Republican Front were initially mixed.
fit in first meetings with Kalma here somewhere
In June, 1894, he married Maria Frynwyrth
other books, launched by second and party formed around the third
marches and 1900 voting scandal
1903 constitutional crisis
1906 royal train bombing
Fhainnin Civil War
Postwar Life
Death
Legacy
Cananach is featured on the one *Barra* note and on state-issued checks, as well as having a stamp dedicated to him. The seals of the Government Ethics Regulatory Bureau and the 6th Army Bragadt bear his image.