Introduction; F.Lane & D.Drisceoil Robert Owen, co-operativism and Ulster in the 1830s; V.Geoghegan Labour and Politics, 1830-1945: Colonisation and Mental Colonisation; E.O’Connor Working Women, Trade Unionism and Politics in Ireland, 1830-1945; M.Luddy Politics, Sectarianism and the Working Class in Nineteenth-Century Belfast; C.Hirst ‘Brethren in Bondage’: Chartists, O’Connellites, Young Irelanders and the 1848 Uprising; C.Kinealy Rural Labourers, Social Change and Politics in Late Nineteenth-Century Ireland; F.Lane Parnellism and Workers: The Experience of Cork and Limerick; M.Cronin William Walker, Labour, Sectarianism and the Union, 1894-1912; H.Patterson Interpreting James Connolly, 1916-23; H.Woggon Labour Militancy During the Irish War of Independence; C.Kostick Radical Politics in Interwar Ireland, 1923-39; F.Mc Garry The Northern Ireland Labour Party, 1924-45; G.Walker Fianna Fail and the Working Class, 1926-38; R.Dunphy ‘Whose Emergency is it?’ Wartime Politics and the Irish Working Class, 1939-45; D.O Drisceoil

MAURA CRONIN Lecturer in History, Mary Immaculate College, Limerick, IRELAND RICHARD DUNPHY Senior Lecturer, Department of Politics, Dundee University, UK VINCENT GEOGHEGAN Professor of Political Theory, Queen’s University, Belfast, UK CATHERINE HIRST Policy Officer, Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, Melbourne, AUSTRALIA CHRISTINE KINEALY Reader in History, University of Central Lancashire, UK CONOR KOSTICK Writer and Historian MARIA LUDDY Reader in History, University of Warwick, UK HENRY PATTERSON Professor of Politics, University of Ulster, UK FEARGHAL MCGARRY Lecturer, School of History, Queen’s University, Belfast, UK EMMET O’CONNOR Senior Lecturer in Modern History, University of Ulster, UK GRAHAM WALKER Reader in Politics, Queen’s University, Belfast, UK HELGA WOGGON Historian