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A History of the Northern Ireland Labour Party - Democratic Socialism and Sectarianism (Paperback)
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A History of the Northern Ireland Labour Party - Democratic Socialism and Sectarianism (Paperback)
Series: Critical Labour Movement Studies
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Available for the first time in paperback, 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. -- .
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