Politics and the Irish working class, 1830-1945 / edited by Fintan Lane and Donal Ó Drisceoil.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Lane, Fintan.

Ó Drisceoil, Donal.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Working class--Ireland--History.

Working class.

Working class--Political activity--Ireland.

Working class--Political activity.

Labor.

History.

Ireland.

Labor--Ireland--History.

Physical Description:

xi, 295 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Basingstoke [U.K.] ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2005.

Summary:

This is the first ever collection of scholarly essays on the history of the Irish working class. It provides a comprehensive introduction to the involvement of Irish workers in political life during a period of significant turmoil and profound historical change. Fourteen historians and political scientists examine the engagement of Irish workers in key political movements and moments that have helped shape modern Ireland. Survey essays on labour and politics, women workers, rural labourers and James Connolly are complemented by case studies that range from the co-operative movement of 1830s Belfast to the grassroots socialism of 1940s Dublin. A recurrent theme is the failure of class-based, socialist politics to become a major feature of Irish political life.

By concentrating specifically on the intersection of politics and the working class, this book not only broadens the focus of Irish labour history, but also redresses an imbalance in Irish political history and adds to the international historiography of the working class.

Contents:

1 Robert Owen, Co-operation and Ulster in the 1830s / Vincent Geoghegan 6

2 Labour and Politics, 1830-1945: Colonisation and Mental Colonisation / Emmet O'Connor 27

3 Working Women, Trade Unionism and Politics in Ireland, 1830-1945 / Maria Luddy 44

4 Politics, Sectarianism and the Working Class in Nineteenth-Century Belfast / Catherine Hirst 62

5 'Brethren in Bondage': Chartists, O'Connellites, Young Irelanders and the 1848 Uprising / Christine Kinealy 87

6 Rural Labourers, Social Change and Politics in Late Nineteenth-Century Ireland / Fintan Lane 113

7 Parnellism and Workers: The Experience of Cork and Limerick / Maura Cronin 140

8 William Walker, Labour, Sectarianism and the Union, 1894-1912 / Henry Patterson 154

9 Interpreting James Connolly, 1916-23 / Helga Woggon 172

10 Labour Militancy during the Irish War of Independence / Conor Kostick 187

11 Radical Politics in Interwar Ireland, 1923-39 / Fearghal McGarry 207

12 The Northern Ireland Labour Party, 1924-45 / Graham Walker 229

13 Fianna Fail and the Working Class, 1926-38 / Richard Dunphy 246

14 'Whose Emergency Is It?' Wartime Politics and the Irish Working Class, 1939-45 / Donal O Drisceoil 262.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1403939179

9781403917 3

OCLC:

60373579

Publisher Number:

9781403939173