A history of the Northern Ireland Labour Party : Democratic socialism and sectarianism.

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Author / Creator:Edwards, Aaron.
Imprint:Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2009.
Description:1 online resource (257 pages)
Language:English
Series:Critical Labour Movement Studies
Critical labour movement studies series.
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Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11166896
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ISBN:9781847792938
1847792936
9781781702390
178170239X
0719078741
9780719078743
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Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Summary: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.
Other form:Print version: Edwards, Aaron. A history of the Northern Ireland Labour Party : Democratic socialism and sectarianism. Manchester : Manchester University Press, ©2009 9780719078743