Irish Labour and the Home Rule question, 1881-1914
The Home Rule question has been neglected in labour historiography, which has focused instead on the wider issue of socialism and nationalism, James Connolly’s writings, and the difficulties of Labour in Unionist Belfast. Most academic historians have regarded nationalism as a barrier to the evoluti...
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2019-06-01
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| description | The Home Rule question has been neglected in labour historiography, which has focused instead on the wider issue of socialism and nationalism, James Connolly’s writings, and the difficulties of Labour in Unionist Belfast. Most academic historians have regarded nationalism as a barrier to the evolution of Labour politics and seen the Irish Parliamentary Party as socially conservative. It will be argued here that Labour’s disengagement from Home Rule politics was due to mental colonization, that Labour-nationalism would have been a productive option, and that the third Home Rule was positive for Labour, outside Belfast. It will also be argued that the problems of Labour in Belfast were created by Unionism rather than nationalism or sectarianism. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-f375c75538bc49398b6be7217502744e2022-12-22T03:58:22ZengCentre de Recherche et d'Etudes en Civilisation BritanniqueRevue Française de Civilisation Britannique0248-90152429-43732019-06-0124210.4000/rfcb.3747Irish Labour and the Home Rule question, 1881-1914Emmet O’ConnorThe Home Rule question has been neglected in labour historiography, which has focused instead on the wider issue of socialism and nationalism, James Connolly’s writings, and the difficulties of Labour in Unionist Belfast. Most academic historians have regarded nationalism as a barrier to the evolution of Labour politics and seen the Irish Parliamentary Party as socially conservative. It will be argued here that Labour’s disengagement from Home Rule politics was due to mental colonization, that Labour-nationalism would have been a productive option, and that the third Home Rule was positive for Labour, outside Belfast. It will also be argued that the problems of Labour in Belfast were created by Unionism rather than nationalism or sectarianism.http://journals.openedition.org/rfcb/3747Labournationalismunionism-Belfastpartitiontrade unions |
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| title | Irish Labour and the Home Rule question, 1881-1914 |
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| topic | Labour nationalism unionism-Belfast partition trade unions |
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