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
Laurence Marley is Lecturer in Modern Irish and British History at the National University of Ireland, Galway
‘Laurence Marley and the contributors have put together an
excellent collection of well-edited and well-researched
chapters…this book is highly recommended reading for students of
political developments in Ireland during this era.’
Neil Pye, SSLH and Independent Researcher, Labour History Review,
vol. 81 No. 2, July 2016
‘All of the chapters to this volume are valuable contributions to
our knowledge of the Labour Party and Ireland…every chapter was
worthy of inclusion.’
John Newsinger, Race and Class Vol 58, No 3
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