TY  - BOOK
AU  - Edwards,Aaron
TI  - A history of the Northern Ireland Labour Party: Democratic socialism and sectarianism
T2  - Critical Labour Movement Studies
SN  - 9781847792938
AV  - JN1572 .H578 2009
PY  - 2009///
CY  - Manchester
PB  - Manchester University Press
KW  - Northern Ireland Labour Party
KW  - History
KW  - Northern Ireland
KW  - Politics and government
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Electronic Books
N1  - 2; 9780719078743; 9780719078743; 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-formingstrategy', 1965-69; The NILP in retreat, 1969-72; The fall of the NILP, 1972-75; Squeezing the moderates, 1975-87; Conclusion; Index; 2; b
N2  - 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 1970
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