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Sunningdale, the Ulster Workers' Council Strike and the Struggle for Democracy in Northern Ireland.

McCann, David.

Sunningdale, the Ulster Workers' Council Strike and the Struggle for Democracy in Northern Ireland. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (237 pages)

Cover -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Contents -- Contributors -- Acknowledgements -- List of abbreviations and Irish terms -- Chronology -- Part I: Introduction and overview of the Sunningdale Agreement -- 1 Introduction -- 2 The Ulster Workers' Council strike: the perfect storm -- 3 Understanding aspiration, anxiety, assumption and ambiguity: the anatomy of Sunningdale -- Part II: The lessons of Sunningdale: the key protagonists -- 4 Sunningdale and the Irish dimension: a step too far? -- 5 British government policy post 1974: learning slowly between Sunningdales? -- 6 British security policy and the Sunningdale Agreement: the consequences of using force to combat terrorism in a liberal democrac -- 7 Sunningdale and the limits of 'rejectionist' Unionism -- 8 Stan Orme and the road to 'Industrial Democracy': British attempts at the politicisation of working-class Protestants in Northern Ireland, 1973-75 -- 9 Power sharing and the Irish dimension: the conundrum for the SDLP in Northern Ireland -- 10 '1974 - Year of Liberty'? The Provisional IRA and Sunningdale -- Part III: The legacies of Sunningdale -- 11 Cultural responses to and the legacies of Sunningdale -- 12 'Slow learners'? Comparing the Sunningdale Agreement and the Belfast/Good Friday Agreement -- The Sunningdale Agreement (December 1973) -- References -- Index.

A sustained and systematic attempt to draw together political and historical scholarship on the Sunningdale experiment and the Ulster Workers' Council strike (1973-4) in Northern Ireland, revisiting the period to explore its lessons and echoes today.

9781526108388


General Strike, Northern Ireland, 1974.
Northern Ireland-Politics and government.
Northern Ireland-History-1968-1998.


Electronic books.

HD5367.5.A6 .S86 2017

331.892/509416

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