The British Labour Party and twentieth-century Ireland : the cause of Ireland, the cause of Labour / edited by Laurence Marley.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Marley, Laurence, Author.

Contributor:

Marley, Laurence, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Labour Party (Great Britain)--History--20th century.

Labour Party (Great Britain).

Political parties--Ireland--History--20th century.

Political parties.

Ireland--Politics and government--1922-.

Ireland.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiii, 254 pages) : digital file(s).

Place of Publication:

Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2016.

Manchester, UK : Manchester University Press, [2015]

Language Note:

English

System Details:

data file

Summary:

With contributions from a range of distinguished Irish and British scholars, this collection of essays provides a full treatment of the historical relationship between the Labour Party and Ireland in the last century, from Keir Hardie to Tony Blair.

Contents:

Introduction / Laurence Marley

1. A tangled legacy : the Irish 'inheritance' of British Labour / Gearóid Ó Tuathaigh

2. Uneasy transitions : Irish nationalism, the rise of Labour and the Catholic Herald, 1888-1914 / Joan Allen

3. British Labour, Belfast and home rule, 1900-14 / Emmet O'Connor

4. Labour and Irish revolution : from investigation to deportation / Ivan Gibbons

5. British Labour and developments in Ireland in the immediate post-war years / Peter Collins

6. 'Where the Tories rule' : Geoffrey Ming MP and partition / Bib Purdie

7. The British Labour Party and the tragedy of Northern Ireland Labour / Aaron Edwards

8. 'That link must be preserved, but there are other problems' : the British Labour Party and Derry, 1942-62 / Máirtín Ó Catháin

9. Reflections on aspects of Labour's policy towards Northern Ireland, 1966-70 : a personal narrative / Kevin McNamara

10. The Labour government and police primacy in Northern Ireland, 1974-79 / Stuart C. Aveyard

11. Some intellectual origins of the Labour left's thought about Ireland, c.1979-97 / Stephen Howe

12. The militant tendency comes to Ireland, c.1969-89 / John Cunningham

13. Anglo-Irish diplomatic relations and the British Labour Party, 1981-94 / Melinda Sutton

14. Leaving the soundbites at home? Tony Blair, New Labour and Northern Ireland, 1993-2007 / Kevin Bean.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781784996444

1784996440

9781526103963

1526103966

9781784997069

1784997064

OCLC:

980845200