John Hume and the SDLP: Impact and Survival in Northern Ireland PDF
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Hume John SDLP and the Impact and Survival in Northern Ireland GERARD MURRAY T SDLP he has consistently defined the Northern Ireland problem as one of a divided people, rather than a territorial issue. Therefore, it raises the important question: how much revision from the traditional nationalist SDLP perspective does the portray, if at from the mid-70s onwards? The all, major objective of this study is to investigate the tensions within the party over its political identity. The party survived the political vacuum which existed during the mid- LIBRARY 70s in Northern Ireland and attained its Square ultimate objective of getting the British government to recognise the validity of PUBLIC the Irish dimension (expressed through the Anglo-Irish agreement in 1985). It Copley unveils how the party’s earliest analysis of the Northern Ireland conflict and BOSTON strategy for resolving the problem was eventually adopted by the British and Irish governments during the eighties. Additionally, the book raises serious Hume/Adams questions about the dialogue, indicating that the Anglo-Irish Agreement failed in its attempt to address minority alienation within Northern Ireland. Does it give validity to the Sinn Fein contention, that Northern Ireland irreformable? More is importantly, does demonstrate that the it SDLP has failed in its attempts to bring about real equality for the minority community in Northern Ireland? continued on backflap/ s y :11 3 ) - r Digitized by the Internet Archive 2017 with funding from in China-America Digital Academic Library (CADAL) https://archive.org/details/johnhumesdlpimpaOOmurr HUME JOHN SDLP and the Impact and Survival in Northern Ireland HUME JOHN SDLP and the Impact and Survival Northern Ireland in GERARD MURRAY IRISH ACADEMIC PRESS DUBLIN: PORTLAND, OR —— First published in 1998 by IRISH ACADEMIC PRESS Northumberland Road, Dublin Ireland 44, 4, and in North America by IRISH ACADEMIC PRESS NE OR c/o ISBS, 5804 Hassalo Street, Portland, 97213 website: http://www.iap.ie © Gerard Murray 1998 British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data Murray, Gerard John Hume and the SDLP: Impact and Survival in Northern Ireland. (New directions in Irish history) — SDLP 1. 2. Political parties—Northern Ireland History — 20th century 3. Northern Ireland Politics and government 1969-1994 I. Title 324.2,4i09,72,09047 ISBN o 7165 6441 ISSN 1393-5356 New Directions in Irish History A cataloguing record is available from the Library of Congress All rights reserved. Without limiting the rights under copyright reserved alone, no part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in or introduced into a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means (electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise), .out the prior written permision of both the copyright I owner and the above publisher of this book. Typeset in 11 pt on 13 pt Sabon by Artwerk, Dublin. Printed by Colour Books Ltd., Dublin
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