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.

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Information

Publisher

Palgrave Macmillan

Year

2005

ISBN

9780230503779

Topic

History

Subtopic

British History

Index

History

Cover
Contents
Notes on the Contributors
Introduction
1 Robert Owen, Co-operation and Ulster in the 1830s
2 Labour and Politics, 1830–1945: Colonisation and Mental Colonisation
3 Working Women, Trade Unionism and Politics in Ireland, 1830–1945
4 Politics, Sectarianism and the Working Class in Nineteenth-Century Belfast
5 ‘Brethren in Bondage’: Chartists, O’Connellites, Young Irelanders and the 1848 Uprising
6 Rural Labourers, Social Change and Politics in Late Nineteenth-Century Ireland
7 Parnellism and Workers: The Experience of Cork and Limerick
8 William Walker, Labour, Sectarianism and the Union, 1894–1912
9 Interpreting James Connolly, 1916–23
10 Labour Militancy during the Irish War of Independence
11 Radical Politics in Interwar Ireland, 1923–39
12 The Northern Ireland Labour Party, 1924–45
13 Fianna Fáil and the Working Class, 1926–38
14 ‘Whose Emergency Is It?’ Wartime Politics and the Irish Working Class, 1939–45
Index