Series Editors' Foreword
Acknowledgements
Abbreviations
List of tables and figures
Introduction
1. Democratic socialism and sectarianism, 1924-45
2. Re-appraising the origins of the 'Consensus-Forming Strategy', 1945-58
3. The Labour opposition of Northern Ireland, 1958-65
4. The Failure of the 'Consensus-Forming Strategy', 1965-69
5. The NILP in retreat, 1969-72
6. The Fall of the NILP, 1972-75
7. Squeezing the moderates, 1975-87
Conclusion
Index

Aaron Edwards is Senior Lecturer in Defence and International Affairs at the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst.

This book is the first, definitive history of the Northern Ireland Labour Party (NILP), a unique political force in twentieth century British and Irish politics that drew its support from Protestants and Catholics and became electorally viable despite deep-seated ethnic, religious and national divisions.