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A history of the Northern Ireland Labour Party : democratic socialism and sectarianism / Aaron Edwards.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Edwards, Aaron, author.
- Series:
- Critical labour movement studies series.
- Manchester Political Studies
- Critical labour movement studies
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Northern Ireland Labour Party--History.
- Northern Ireland Labour Party.
- Northern Ireland--Politics and government--20th century.
- Northern Ireland.
- Genre:
- History
- Electronic books.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xii, 256 pages) : illustrations; digital, PDF file(s)]
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Manchester, UK : Manchester University Press, 2013.
- Language Note:
- In English.
- System Details:
- Mode of access: World Wide Web.
- Summary:
- This book is the first definitive history of the Northern Ireland Labour Party (NILP), a unique political force which drew its support from Protestants and Catholics and became electorally viable despite deep-seated ethnic, religious and national divisions. Formed in 1924 and disbanded in 1987, the NILP succeeded in returning several of its members to the locally-based Northern Ireland parliament in 1925?29 and 1958?72 and polled some 100,000 votes in both the 1964 and the 1970 British general elections. As British Labour?s?sister? party in the province from the late 1920s until the late 1970.
- Contents:
- 9780719078743; 9780719078743; Copyright Page; Contents; Series editors' foreword; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; Figures and tables; Introduction; Democratic socialism and sectarianism,1924-45; Re-appraising the origins of the'consensus-forming strategy', 1945-58; The Labour Opposition of Northern Ireland,1958-65; The failure of the 'consensus-formingstrategy', 1965-69; The NILP in retreat, 1969-72; The fall of the NILP, 1972-75; Squeezing the moderates, 1975-87; Conclusion; Index.
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print record.
- ISBN:
- 9781847797322
- 1847797326
- 9781781702390
- 178170239X
- 9781847792938
- 1847792936
- OCLC:
- 818847389
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