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Politics and the Irish Working Class, 1830–1945

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  1. Fintan Lane

    1. University College, Cork, Ireland

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  2. Donal Ó Drisceoil

    1. University College, Cork, Ireland

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Table of contents (15 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xi
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  2. Introduction

    • Fintan Lane, Donal Ó Drisceoil
    Pages 1-5

  3. Robert Owen, Co-operation and Ulster in the 1830s

    • Vincent Geoghegan
    Pages 6-26

  4. Labour and Politics, 1830–1945: Colonisation and Mental Colonisation

    • Emmet O’Connor
    Pages 27-43

  5. Working Women, Trade Unionism and Politics in Ireland, 1830–1945

    • Maria Luddy
    Pages 44-61

  6. Politics, Sectarianism and the Working Class in Nineteenth-Century Belfast

    • Catherine Hirst
    Pages 62-86

  7. ‘Brethren in Bondage’: Chartists, O’Connellites, Young Irelanders and the 1848 Uprising

    • Christine Kinealy
    Pages 87-112

  8. Rural Labourers, Social Change and Politics in Late Nineteenth-Century Ireland

    • Fintan Lane
    Pages 113-139

  9. Parnellism and Workers: The Experience of Cork and Limerick

    • Maura Cronin
    Pages 140-153

  10. William Walker, Labour, Sectarianism and the Union, 1894–1912

    • Henry Patterson
    Pages 154-171

  11. Interpreting James Connolly, 1916–23

    • Helga Woggon
    Pages 172-186

  12. Labour Militancy during the Irish War of Independence

    • Conor Kostick
    Pages 187-206

  13. Radical Politics in Interwar Ireland, 1923–39

    • Fearghal McGarry
    Pages 207-228

  14. The Northern Ireland Labour Party, 1924–45

    • Graham Walker
    Pages 229-245

  15. Fianna Fáil and the Working Class, 1926–38

    • Richard Dunphy
    Pages 246-261

  16. ‘Whose Emergency Is It?’ Wartime Politics and the Irish Working Class, 1939–45

    • Donal Ó Drisceoil
    Pages 262-280

  17. Back Matter

    Pages 281-295
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About this book

This book is the first ever collection of scholarly essays on the history of the Irish working class. It provides a comprehensive introduction to the involvement of Irish workers in political life and movements between 1830 and 1945. Fourteen leading Irish and international historians and political scientists trace the politicization of Irish workers during a period of considerable social and political turmoil. The contributions include both surveys covering the entire period and case studies that provide new perspectives on crucial historical movements and moments. This volume is a milestone in Irish labour and political historiography and an important contribution to the international literature on politics and the working class.

Reviews

'...this edited volume is a welcome addition to Irish working-class historiography. It goes some way to tighten the accepted reasons for the lack of left-right politics in Ireland, north and south, while offering glimpses of when this development may have broken through the barriers of religion, nationalism and ownership of the land...The reading of Politics and the Irish Working Class, 1830-1945 prompts the reader to delve further, and the range and wealth of sources contained within illustrate plenty of scope for further research.' - Kieran McGovern, Reviews in History

'A welcome and important contribution to Irish working class history. It has taken far too long for a volume such as this to appear and the editors, contributors and publishers are to be congratulated on the publication of such an interesting and scholarly collection. It is a collection that will prove useful to experienced scholars and students alike and many of the chapters provide a large amount of useful references. ' - Irish Economic and Social History

Editors and Affiliations

  • University College, Cork, Ireland

    Fintan Lane, Donal Ó Drisceoil

About the editors

MAURA CRONIN Lecturer in History, Mary Immaculate College, Limerick, IRELAND RICHARD DUNPHY Senior Lecturer, Department of Politics, Dundee University, UK VINCENT GEOGHEGAN Professor of Political Theory, Queen's University, Belfast, UK CATHERINE HIRST Policy Officer, Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, Melbourne, AUSTRALIA CHRISTINE KINEALY Reader in History, University of Central Lancashire, UK CONOR KOSTICK Writer and Historian MARIA LUDDY Reader in History, University of Warwick, UK HENRY PATTERSON Professor of Politics, University of Ulster, UK FEARGHAL MCGARRY Lecturer, School of History, Queen's University, Belfast, UK EMMET O'CONNOR Senior Lecturer in Modern History, University of Ulster, UK GRAHAM WALKER Reader in Politics, Queen's University, Belfast, UK HELGA WOGGON Historian

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Politics and the Irish Working Class, 1830–1945

  • Editors: Fintan Lane, Donal Ó Drisceoil

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230503779

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London

  • eBook Packages: Palgrave History Collection, History (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2005

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4039-3917-3Published: 30 September 2005

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-51962-0Published: 01 January 2005

  • eBook ISBN: 978-0-230-50377-9Published: 30 September 2005

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XI, 295

  • Topics: History of Britain and Ireland, European History, Modern History, Political History

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