LEADER 02938nam 2200589 a 450 001 9910465611103321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-84779-732-6 010 $a1-78170-239-X 010 $a1-84779-293-6 035 $a(CKB)2560000000085830 035 $a(EBL)1069632 035 $a(OCoLC)818847389 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000712782 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12315620 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000712782 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10649751 035 $a(PQKB)10733819 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0000085826 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1069632 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL1069632 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10623215 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL843548 035 $a(EXLCZ)992560000000085830 100 $a20100303d2009 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 12$aA history of the Northern Ireland Labour Party$b[electronic resource] $edemocratic socialism and sectarianism /$fAaron Edwards 210 $aManchester, U.K. ;$aNew York $cManchester University Press $cDistributed in the United States exclusively by Palgrave Macmillan$dc2009 215 $a1 online resource (257 p.) 225 1 $aCritical labour movement studies 300 $aIncludes index. 311 $a0-7190-8638-8 311 $a0-7190-7874-1 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aCopyright 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; Index 330 $aThis book is the first definitive history of the Northern Ireland Labour Party (NILP), a unique political force which drew its support from Protestants and Catholics and became electorally viable despite deep-seated ethnic, religious and national divisions. Formed in 1924 and disbanded in 1987, the NILP succeeded in returning several of its members to the locally-based Northern Ireland parliament in 1925-29 and 1958-72 and polled some 100,000 votes in both the 1964 and the 1970 British general elections. As British Labour's 'sister' party in the province from the late 1920's until the late 1970 410 0$aCritical labour movement studies series. 607 $aNorthern Ireland$xPolitics and government$y20th century 608 $aElectronic books. 676 $a324.2410709416 700 $aEdwards$b Aaron$0871479 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910465611103321 996 $aA history of the Northern Ireland Labour Party$91945501 997 $aUNINA