British Left and Ireland in the Twentieth Century

Name: British Left and Ireland in the Twentieth Century
Brand: Taylor & Francis

Taylor & Francis

The British Left and Ireland in the Twentieth CenturyAuthor(s): Evan Smith, Matthew Worley\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9780367701468, 978-0367701468\nSynopsis\nThis collection explores how the British left has interacted with the Irish question throughout the twentieth century, the lefts expression of solidarity with Irish republicanism and relationships built with Irish political movements.\n\nThroughout the twentieth century, the British left expressed, to varying degrees, solidarity with Irish republicanism and fostered links with republican, nationalist, socialist and labour groups in Ireland. Although this peaked with the Irish Revolution from 1916 to 1923 and during the Troubles in the 1970s80s, this collection shows that the British left sought to build relationships with their Irish counterparts (in both the North and South) from the Edwardian to Thatcherite period. However these relationships were much .