Introduction: the British left and Ireland in the twentieth century

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Notes

1. Porter and O’Hearn, “New Left Podsnappery,” 131.

2. Reaney, “Irish Chartists in Britain and Ireland,” 94–103. For a discussion of British labour movement and Ireland leading up to the Chartists, see: Thompson, “Ireland and the Irish in English Radicalism,” 120–151.

3. Mathur and Dix, “The Irish Question in Karl Marx’s and Friedrich Engels’s,” 103–105.

4. Rodden, “The Lever Must Be Applied in Ireland”, 609–640.

5. Boyle, “Ireland and the First International,” 44–62.

6. Newsinger, “A Great Blow Must Be Struck in Ireland”, 165.

7. Young, “A Very English Socialism and the Celtic Fringe 1880–1991,” 136–152; Ward, Red Flag and Union Jack.

8. Howell, A Lost Left, 42–52; Young, “A Very English Socialism and the Celtic Fringe 1880–1991,” 149–150.

9. Darlington, “British Labour Movement Solidarity,” 504–525.

10. Lenin, “The Right of Nations to Self-Determination.”

11. Letter of Anglo-American Secretariat to Ireland RE: elections (7 January, 1932), Comintern Archives, RGASPI 495/89/75/1.

12. See: Richard English, “Socialism and Republican Schism in Ireland,” 48–65.

13. Shields, “The Republican Congress and Ireland’s Fight,” 687.

14. Convery, “Revolutionary Internationalists,” 131–144.

15. Morgan, Cohen and Flinn, Communists and British Society 1920–1991, 201.

16. Sheehy, “In the Shadow of Gunmen.”

17. Connolly Association, What is the Connolly Association?, 14.

18. CPGB International Department, International Affairs Bulletin, 8.

19. ‘Force or Agreement?’, Irish Democrat (July 1966) 3.

20. Cunningham, “The Militant Tendency Comes to Ireland.”

21. Kinkead, “Provisional IRA Strategy Will Not Defeat Imperialism,” 2.

22. Ibid.

23. Redmond, “The Forces in the Irish National Liberation Struggle,” 169–170.

24. Militant, Internal Bulletin (March 1981), 6–7.

25. Callaghan, The Far Left in British Politics, 145.

26. RCT, Ireland’s Victory Means Britain’s Defeat, 17.

27. See: Birchall, Beating the Fascists, 87–92.

28. Hayes, “Red Action—Left Wing Political Pariah”, 242–243.

29. Stott, “For Every Action There is an Equal and Opposite Reaction,” 106.

30. Porter & O’Hearn, “New Left Podsnappery,” 132.

31. Ibid., 147.

32. Taaffe, From Militant to the Socialist Party, 303.

33. CPB, Britain’s Road to Socialism (2001)

https://www.marxists.org/history/international/comintern/sections/britain/brs/2001/04.htm (accessed 11 July, 2018).

34. Bell, Hesitant Comrades, 216.

35. Marley, The British Labour Party and Twentieth-Century Ireland.

36. Howe, “Some Intellectual Origins of the Labour Left’s Thought,” 182–196; Cunningham, “The Militant Tendency Comes to Ireland,” 197–215.

37. Renwick, “Something in the Air,” 111–126; Rossiter, “Not Our Cup of Tea,” 153–168; Parkin, “Political Delegations of Women,” 169–179.

38. Smylie, “The CPGB, the Connolly Association and Irish Communism,” 639–655.

39. Treacy, The IRA 1956–69; Noonan, The IRA in Britain 1919–1923.

40. Finn, “The British Radical Left and Northern Ireland,” 214–215.

41. Irish Left Archive is available at https://www.clririshleftarchive.org.