Author: John Fitzsimons Harbinson
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Languages : en
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Author: John Fitzsimons Harbinson
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Languages : en
Pages : 302

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Author: Aaron Edwards
Publisher: Manchester University Press
ISBN: 1847797326
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 449

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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 1970s, the NILP could rely on substantive fraternal and organisational support at critical junctures in its history. Despite its political successes the NILP’s significance has been downplayed by historians, partly because of the lack of empirical evidence and partly to reinforce the simplistic view of Northern Ireland as the site of the most protracted sectarian conflict in modern Europe. For the first time this book brings together important archival sources and the oral testimonies of former NILP members to explain the enigma of an extraordinary political party operating in extraordinary circumstances. The book situates the NILP’s successes and failures in a broad historical framework, providing the reader with a balanced account of twentieth-century Northern Irish political history. This book will appeal to students and scholars of labour movements, as well as non-specialists who wish to learn more about the NILP’s brand of democratic socialism, its ideological and logistical ties to British Labour and the character of its cross-sectarian membership.

Author: John Alexander Vance Graham
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Languages : en
Pages : 342

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Category : Ireland
Languages : en
Pages : 360

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Category : Northern Ireland
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Author: Paul Bew
Publisher: Serif Publishing
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 284

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The new edition of this path-breaking study. Covering the entire period between partition and the end of the IRA's ceasefire in 1996, the authors take issue with the stereotypes which portray the old Unionist state and the Protestant population as unchanging and monolithic and Catholics as uniformly alienated from the political establishment.

Author: Ruth Dudley Edwards
Publisher: Psychology Press
ISBN: 9780415278591
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 320

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Fully revised and updated with over 100 beautiful maps, charts and graphs, and a narrative packed with facts this outstanding book examines the main changes that have occurred in Ireland and among the Irish abroad over the past two millennia.

Author: Paul Bew
Publisher: Interlink Publishing Group
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 300

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This highly acclaimed study of Northern Ireland traces the province's history from partition to peace process. Using a wide range of primary sources, the authors lay bare the key issues of Northern Ireland's history.

Author: Paul Bew
Publisher: Serif Publishing
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 264

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A path-breaking study that covers the entire period between partition and the Provisional IRA's 1994 ceasefire in Northern Ireland in discussing the political and social forces that resulted in Ireland's troubles. The stereotypes which protray the old Unionist state and the Protestant population as unchanging and monolithic and Catholics as uniformly rebellious and alienated from the political establishment are addressed, as well as how the old Orange elite and the broader Protestant population created an explosive political dynamic. Using a wide array of primary sources, the key issues of Northern Ireland's history, from the establishment of B Specials after partition to the stark realities of Direct Rule from London, are laid bare. -- Publisher description.