Politics and the Irish Working Class, 1830–1945

MAURA CRONIN Lecturer in History, Mary Immaculate College, Limerick, IRELANDRICHARD DUNPHY Senior Lecturer, Department of Politics, Dundee University, UKVINCENT GEOGHEGAN Professor of Political Theory, Queen's University, Belfast, UKCATHERINE HIRST Policy Officer, Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, Melbourne, AUSTRALIACHRISTINE KINEALY Reader in History, University of Central Lancashire, UKCONOR KOSTICK Writer and HistorianMARIA LUDDY Reader in History, University of Warwick, UKHENRY PATTERSON Professor of Politics, University of Ulster, UKFEARGHAL MCGARRY Lecturer, School of History, Queen's University, Belfast, UKEMMET O'CONNOR Senior Lecturer in Modern History, University of Ulster, UKGRAHAM WALKER Reader in Politics, Queen's University, Belfast, UKHELGA WOGGON Historian

• Introduction; F.Lane & D.Drisceoil Robert Owen, co-operativism and Ulster in the 1830s; V.Geoghegan Labour and Politics, 1830-1945: Colonisation and Mental Colonisation; E.O'Connor Working Women, Trade Unionism and Politics in Ireland, 1830-1945; M.Luddy Politics, Sectarianism and the Working Class in Nineteenth-Century Belfast; C.Hirst 'Brethren in Bondage': Chartists, O'Connellites, Young Irelanders and the 1848 Uprising; C.Kinealy Rural Labourers, Social Change and Politics in Late Nineteenth-Century Ireland; F.Lane Parnellism and Workers: The Experience of Cork and Limerick; M.Cronin William Walker, Labour, Sectarianism and the Union, 1894-1912; H.Patterson Interpreting James Connolly, 1916-23; H.Woggon Labour Militancy During the Irish War of Independence; C.Kostick Radical Politics in Interwar Ireland, 1923-39; F.McGarry The Northern Ireland Labour Party, 1924-45; G.Walker Fianna Fail and the Working Class, 1926-38; R.Dunphy 'Whose Emergency is it?' Wartime Politics and the Irish Working Class, 1939-45; D.O Drisceoil

'...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