02938nam 2200589 a 450 991046561110332120200520144314.01-84779-732-61-78170-239-X1-84779-293-6(CKB)2560000000085830(EBL)1069632(OCoLC)818847389(SSID)ssj0000712782(PQKBManifestationID)12315620(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000712782(PQKBWorkID)10649751(PQKB)10733819(StDuBDS)EDZ0000085826(MiAaPQ)EBC1069632(Au-PeEL)EBL1069632(CaPaEBR)ebr10623215(CaONFJC)MIL843548(EXLCZ)99256000000008583020100303d2009 uy 0engurcn|||||||||txtccrA history of the Northern Ireland Labour Party[electronic resource] democratic socialism and sectarianism /Aaron EdwardsManchester, U.K. ;New York Manchester University Press Distributed in the United States exclusively by Palgrave Macmillanc20091 online resource (257 p.)Critical labour movement studiesIncludes index.0-7190-8638-8 0-7190-7874-1 Includes bibliographical references and index.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-forming strategy', 1965-69; The NILP in retreat, 1969-72; The fall of the NILP, 1972-75; Squeezing the moderates, 1975-87; Conclusion; IndexThis 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 1920's until the late 1970Critical labour movement studies series.Northern IrelandPolitics and government20th centuryElectronic books.324.2410709416Edwards Aaron871479MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910465611103321A history of the Northern Ireland Labour Party1945501UNINA