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Walker William Walker 1870-1918: Belfast Labour Unionist Centenary Essays

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ISBN: 9781916448919
Pub Date19/10/2018
BindingPaperback
Pages230
CountryIRL
Dewey331.88092
Publisher: Umiskin Press
Quick overview A series of articles to commemorate William Walker’s centenary.
€28.00

Essays:
Seán Byers & Francis Devine, Why William Walker?
Patrick Smylie, A Cautionary Antecedent: the Belfast Career of John Bruce Wallace
Mike Mecham, William Walker, the Socialist Poor Law Guardian of Belfast
Peter Collins, William Walker & Belfast Trades Council
Myrtle Hill, Voices From The Margins: Women and Belfast’s Early Labour Movement
Aaron Edwards, Preaching Socialism Without Reward? Walkerism, the Northern Ireland Labour Party, and a Very British Brand of Internationalism
Christopher J.V. Loughlin, The Long Civil Rights Movement in Northern Ireland: Labour & Progress in Loyal Ulster, 1921-1939
Mike Mecham, Walker in Britain: A Tribute to Bob Purdie
Brian Hanley, The People of No Property? Republicanism & Socialism in Twentieth Century Ireland
Adrian Grant, Nationalisms and International Socialism: the Connolly-Walker Controversy, 1911
Francis Devine, William McMullen’s Account of the Newry Dock Strike, 1907
Jim Quinn, ‘No Homes for People or Books’: Labour’s Housing Struggle in Enniskillen, 1915-1932
Francis Devine, Mistress of Her Own History: UNISON’s Anna McGonigle of Omagh
Connal Parr, John Hewitt: Ever Hopeful
‘Divine Discontent’ and the ‘Alembic of Divine Mystery’: William Walker Address to the 1904 Irish Trades Union Congress
Addendum ‘A Fighter For the People’: A View of William Walker From His Union

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Essays:
Seán Byers & Francis Devine, Why William Walker?
Patrick Smylie, A Cautionary Antecedent: the Belfast Career of John Bruce Wallace
Mike Mecham, William Walker, the Socialist Poor Law Guardian of Belfast
Peter Collins, William Walker & Belfast Trades Council
Myrtle Hill, Voices From The Margins: Women and Belfast’s Early Labour Movement
Aaron Edwards, Preaching Socialism Without Reward? Walkerism, the Northern Ireland Labour Party, and a Very British Brand of Internationalism
Christopher J.V. Loughlin, The Long Civil Rights Movement in Northern Ireland: Labour & Progress in Loyal Ulster, 1921-1939
Mike Mecham, Walker in Britain: A Tribute to Bob Purdie
Brian Hanley, The People of No Property? Republicanism & Socialism in Twentieth Century Ireland
Adrian Grant, Nationalisms and International Socialism: the Connolly-Walker Controversy, 1911
Francis Devine, William McMullen’s Account of the Newry Dock Strike, 1907
Jim Quinn, ‘No Homes for People or Books’: Labour’s Housing Struggle in Enniskillen, 1915-1932
Francis Devine, Mistress of Her Own History: UNISON’s Anna McGonigle of Omagh
Connal Parr, John Hewitt: Ever Hopeful
‘Divine Discontent’ and the ‘Alembic of Divine Mystery’: William Walker Address to the 1904 Irish Trades Union Congress
Addendum ‘A Fighter For the People’: A View of William Walker From His Union