- Hardcover: 288 pages
- Publisher: Manchester University Press (1 Mar 2009)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0719078741
- ISBN-13: 978-0719078743
- Product Dimensions: 23.4 x 16.4 x 2.6 cm
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 2,148,164 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Edwards book, A History of the Northern Ireland Labour Party... outlines the history of a valiant attempt to represent working class interests and forge better relationships across the divide. However, the forces of reaction and sectarianism always threatened and finally destroyed the NILP. The story... [Edwards] relates clarifies and amplifies what happened . --Roy Garland, Irish News (April 2009)
The wide-ranging nature of this well-researched volume fills a sizable gap in the published study of the workings of the Northern Ireland Labour Party... the study is an excellent history of the NILP which utilises all the available sources, and is a useful book that should appeal to undergraduates and academic alike . --James Condren, Political Studies Review (2010)
Has Edwards succeeded in persuading us that the history of the Northern Ireland Labour Party has more than a nostalgia value for those who find the cruder communal realities of Irish politics unappealing? The answer has to be a resounding yes… Edwards has performed an invaluable service to all those interested in the modern history of Ireland by recreating a lost world: that of the post-war working class, particularly its predominantly Protestant skilled and unionised section… He provides the reader with a detailed and convincing set of portraits of key Labour activists like Billy Boyd and Beatrice Boyd, Sam Napier and Charles Brett as they worked tirelessly to cement relations with Labour in the rest of the UK and expose the narrow sectarian seaminess of much of unionist politics and administration. --Professor Henry Patterson, Irish Political Studies (2010) --This text refers to the Paperback edition.
The wide-ranging nature of this well-researched volume fills a sizable gap in the published study of the workings of the Northern Ireland Labour Party... the study is an excellent history of the NILP which utilises all the available sources, and is a useful book that should appeal to undergraduates and academic alike . --James Condren, Political Studies Review (2010)
Has Edwards succeeded in persuading us that the history of the Northern Ireland Labour Party has more than a nostalgia value for those who find the cruder communal realities of Irish politics unappealing? The answer has to be a resounding yes… Edwards has performed an invaluable service to all those interested in the modern history of Ireland by recreating a lost world: that of the post-war working class, particularly its predominantly Protestant skilled and unionised section… He provides the reader with a detailed and convincing set of portraits of key Labour activists like Billy Boyd and Beatrice Boyd, Sam Napier and Charles Brett as they worked tirelessly to cement relations with Labour in the rest of the UK and expose the narrow sectarian seaminess of much of unionist politics and administration. --Professor Henry Patterson, Irish Political Studies (2010) --This text refers to the Paperback edition.
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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 the 1964 and 1970 British general elections. As British Labour's 'sister' party in the province from the late 1920s until the late 1970s, the NILP could rely on substantive fraternal and organisational support at critical junctures in its history. Despite its political successes, the NILP's significance has been downplayed by historians, partly because of the lack of empirical evidence and partly to reinforce the simplistic view of Northern Ireland as the site of the most protracted sectarian conflict in modern Europe.For the first time this book brings together important archival sources and the oral testimonies of its former members to explain the enigma of an extraordinary political party operating in extraordinary circumstances. The book situates the NILP's successes and failures in a broad historical framework, providing the reader with a balanced account of twentieth-century Northern Irish political history. It will appeal to students and scholars of labour movements, as well as non-specialists who wish to learn more about the NILP's brand of democratic socialism, its ideological and logistical ties to British Labour and the character of its cross-sectarian membership
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