Title A history of the Northern Ireland Labour Party : Democratic socialism and sectarianism

Published Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2009

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Description 1 online resource (257 pages) Series Critical Labour Movement Studies Critical labour movement studies series. 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 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 Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL English Print version record digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL Subject Northern Ireland Labour Party -- History SUBJECT Northern Ireland Labour Party fast Northern Ireland Labour Party gnd Subject POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Process -- Political Parties. POLITICAL SCIENCE -- History & Theory. Politics and government SUBJECT Northern Ireland -- Politics and government -- 20th century Subject Northern Ireland Genre/Form History Form Electronic book ISBN 9781847792938 1847792936 9781781702390 178170239X

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