Laurence Marley

The British Labour Party and twentieth-century Ireland (eBook, ePUB)

The cause of Ireland, the cause of Labour

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

At the beginning of the twentieth century, the British Labour Party was broadly supportive of Irish home rule. However, from the end of the First World War, Labour anticipated a place in government, and as a modern, maturing party in British politics, it developed a more calculated set of responses towards Ireland. With contributions from a range of distinguished Irish and British scholars, this collection of essays provides the first full treatment of the historical relationship between the Labour Party and Ireland in the last century, from Keir Hardie to Tony Blair. By widening the lens on Labour's responses to the 'Irish question' over an entire century, it offers an original perspective on longer-term dispositions in Labour mentalities towards Ireland and on the relationship between 'these islands'. It will prove essential reading for those with an interest in modern Irish and British history, Anglo-Irish relations, and the current Northern Ireland peace process.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bonnier Books UK
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Dezember 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781784996444
• Artikelnr.: 44055024

Autorenporträt

Laurence Marley is Lecturer in Modern Irish and British History at the National University of Ireland, Galway

Inhaltsangabe

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. The British Labour Party, Belfast Labour and home rule, 1900
14
Emmet O'Connor 4. 'A parliamentary victory': Ramsay MacDonald and Irish republican deportees, 1923
Ivan Gibbons 5. 'That link must be preserved, but there are other problems': the British Labour Party and Derry, 1942
62
Máirtín Ó Catháin 6. British Labour and developments in Ireland in the immediate post
war years
Peter Collins 7. 'Not foreign': the Republic of Ireland Act, 1948, and Labour's response to the Irish in Britain
David Shaw 8. 'Where the Tories rule': Geoffrey Bing, MP, and partition
Bob Purdie 9. The British Labour Party and the tragedy of Northern Ireland Labour
Aaron Edwards 10. 'Why don't they all just go away?' Reflections upon aspects of Labour policy towards Northern Ireland, 1966
1970: a personal narrative
Kevin McNamara 11. 'Withdrawal on the table?' Labour government policy on Northern Ireland, 1974
76
Niall Ó Dochartaigh 12. Labour and police primacy in Northern Ireland, 1974
79
Stuart C. Aveyard 13. Militant tendency, Ireland and the British Labour Party
John Cunningham 14. Some intellectual origins of the Labour left's thought about Ireland, c.1979
97
Stephen Howe 15. 'The Irish dimension': Anglo
Irish relations and the British Labour Party, 1981
94
Melinda Sutton 16. 'Leaving the soundbites at home?' New Labour and Northern Ireland
Kevin Bean Index