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Sinn Féin and the SDLP : from alienation to participation / Gerald Murray, Jonathan Tonge.

Title
Sinn Féin and the SDLP : from alienation to participation / Gerald Murray, Jonathan Tonge.
Author
Murray, Gerard.
Publication
New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2005.

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Tonge, Jonathan.
Description
xvii, 300 p.; 23 cm.
Summary
This study argues that political winners have become electoral losers in Northern Ireland. Sinn Fein was obliged to give up a lot to support the Good Friday Agreement--a deal which recognizes Northern Ireland, kept it within the United Kingdom, and asked republicans to assist in the governance of a political entity they fought to destroy. In contrast, the Social Democratic and Labor Party (SDLP) did not have to compromise much. Yet despite this, Sinn Fein has become politically dominant. This book looks at the the entire history of the two parties since 1970, and seeks to come to grips with the meaning of the recent ascent of Sinn Fein.
Subject
  • Sinn Fein > History
  • Social Democratic and Labour Party (Northern Ireland) > History
  • Peace-building > Northern Ireland
  • Republicanism > Northern Ireland
  • Nationalism > Northern Ireland
  • Northern Ireland > Politics and government > 1968-1998
  • Northern Ireland > Politics and government > 1998-
Genre/Form
History
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 271-295) and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
The development of nationalist politics in Northern Ireland -- Collapsing Stormont: politics and rebellion in the early 1970s -- The Sunningdale experiment -- Marginalisation, exclusion and rebirth: Republicanism, 1972-9 -- Ending political inertia: internationalisation of the Northern Ireland conflict -- The Republican second front: hunger strikes and ballot boxes -- Rescuing the SDLP: the New Ireland forum -- The Anglo-Irish agreement -- Republican reappraisal: the initiatives of Gerry Adams -- Towards peace, pan-nationalism and co-determination -- The Good Friday agreement: SDLP triumph? -- Triumph or sell-out? Sinn Féin and Constitutional Republicanism -- New Agendas? Nationalist social and economic policies.
ISBN
1403968608 (hbk.)
OCLC
57575622
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library