1. Robert Owen, co-operation and Ulster in the 1830s / Vincent Geoghegan -- 2. Labour and politics, 1830-1945 : colonisation and mental colonisation / Emmet O'Connor -- 3. Working women, trade unionism and politics in Ireland, 1830-1945 / Maria Luddy -- 4. Politics, sectarianism and the working class in nineteenth-century Belfast / Catherine Hirst -- 5. 'Brethren in bondage' : chartists, O'Connellites, young Irelanders and the 1848 uprising / Christine Kinealy -- 6. Rural labourers, social change and politics in late nineteenth-century Ireland / Fintan Lane -- 7. Parnellism and workers : the experience of Cork and Limerick / Maura Cronin -- 8. William Walker, labour, sectarianism and the union, 1894-1912 / Henry Patterson -- 9. Interpreting James Connolly, 1916-23 / Helga Woggon -- 10. Labour militancy during the Irish War of Independence / Conor Kostick -- 11. Radical politics in interwar Ireland, 1923-39 / Fearghal McGarry -- 12. The Northern Ireland Labour Party, 1924-45 / Graham Walker -- 13. Fianna Fáil and the working class, 1926-38 / Richard Dunphy -- 14. 'Whose emergency is it? " wartime politics and the Irish working class, 1939-45 / Donal Ó Drisceoil.
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"This 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 during a period of significant turmoil and profound historical change. Fourteen historians and political scientists examine the engagement of Irish workers in key political movements and moments that have helped shape modern Ireland. By concentrating specifically on the intersection of politics and the working class, this book not only broadens the focus of Irish labour history, but also redresses an imbalance in Irish political history and adds to the international historiography of the working class."--Jacket.