Politics and the Irish Working Class, 1830-1945

Front Matter....Pages i-xi
Introduction....Pages 1-5
Robert Owen, Co-operation and Ulster in the 1830s....Pages 6-26
Labour and Politics, 1830–1945: Colonisation and Mental Colonisation....Pages 27-43
Working Women, Trade Unionism and Politics in Ireland, 1830–1945....Pages 44-61
Politics, Sectarianism and the Working Class in Nineteenth-Century Belfast....Pages 62-86
‘Brethren in Bondage’: Chartists, O’Connellites, Young Irelanders and the 1848 Uprising....Pages 87-112
Rural Labourers, Social Change and Politics in Late Nineteenth-Century Ireland....Pages 113-139
Parnellism and Workers: The Experience of Cork and Limerick....Pages 140-153
William Walker, Labour, Sectarianism and the Union, 1894–1912....Pages 154-171
Interpreting James Connolly, 1916–23....Pages 172-186
Labour Militancy during the Irish War of Independence....Pages 187-206
Radical Politics in Interwar Ireland, 1923–39....Pages 207-228
The Northern Ireland Labour Party, 1924–45....Pages 229-245
Fianna Fáil and the Working Class, 1926–38....Pages 246-261
‘Whose Emergency Is It?’ Wartime Politics and the Irish Working Class, 1939–45....Pages 262-280
Back Matter....Pages 281-295