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Title The British Labour Party and twentieth-century Ireland : the cause of Ireland, the cause of Labour / edited by Laurence Marley
Published Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2016

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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 254 pages)
Contents Introduction / Laurence Marley -- 1. A tangled legacy : the Irish 'inheritance' of British Labour / Gearóid Ó Tuathaigh -- 2. Uneasy transitions : Irish nationalism, the rise of Labour and the Catholic Herald, 1888-1914 / Joan Allen -- 3. British Labour, Belfast and home rule, 1900-14 / Emmet O'Connor -- 4. Labour and Irish revolution : from investigation to deportation / Ivan Gibbons -- 5. British Labour and developments in Ireland in the immediate post-war years / Peter Collins -- 6. 'Where the Tories rule' : Geoffrey Ming MP and partition / Bib Purdie -- 7. The British Labour Party and the tragedy of Northern Ireland Labour / Aaron Edwards -- 8. 'That link must be preserved, but there are other problems' : the British Labour Party and Derry, 1942-62 / Máirtín Ó Catháin -- 9. Reflections on aspects of Labour's policy towards Northern Ireland, 1966-70 : a personal narrative / Kevin McNamara -- 10. The Labour government and police primacy in Northern Ireland, 1974-79 / Stuart C. Aveyard -- 11. Some intellectual origins of the Labour left's thought about Ireland, c.1979-97 / Stephen Howe -- 12. The militant tendency comes to Ireland, c.1969-89 / John Cunningham -- 13. Anglo-Irish diplomatic relations and the British Labour Party, 1981-94 / Melinda Sutton -- 14. Leaving the soundbites at home? Tony Blair, New Labour and Northern Ireland, 1993-2007 / Kevin Bean
Summary With contributions from a range of distinguished Irish and British scholars, this collection of essays provides a full treatment of the historical relationship between the Labour Party and Ireland in the last century, from Keir Hardie to Tony Blair
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed November 4, 2015)
Subject Labour Party (Great Britain) -- History -- 20th century
SUBJECT Labour Party (Great Britain) fast
Subject Political parties -- Ireland -- History -- 20th century
Political Parties.
Central Government.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Process -- Elections.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Process -- General.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Process -- Political Parties.
Political parties
Politics and government
SUBJECT Ireland -- Politics and government -- 1922- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85068046
Subject Ireland
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
Author Marley, Laurence, editor.
ISBN 9781784997069
1784997064