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Origins:  British Labour And Ireland

by Brendan Clifford

Article first published in the Irish Political Review, September 2015 


Arthur Henderson addressing the special conference of the Labour Party in 1917 which resolved to send delegates to the International Socialist Conference in Stockholm


The full text of this article can be downloaded as a Word document
here 


Introduction - the difference between taking power in a state and creating a state from scratch

Necessary qualifications for government - (1) Support for the Empire and (2) Support for the War

The 1915 Coalition - The killing of James Connolly - The 1916 Coalition

The genius of Arthur Henderson - the end of the Unionist Party - Labour as a party of government

Henderson's British values (patriotic non-conformism) - Henderson separates from Lloyd George - but not from Lloyd George's Irish policy

Ireland as a possible danger to Britain - Labour and the exclusion of Northern Ireland from British politics

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