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By Geoffrey Bell

ISBN-10: 0745336604

ISBN-13: 9780745336602

ISBN-10: 0745336655

ISBN-13: 9780745336657

Geoffrey Bell's Hesitant Comrades is the 1st released historical past of the regulations, activities and attitudes of the British operating type in the direction of the Irish nationwide revolution of 1916-21.

Drawing mostly on basic resources, Bell brings to gentle for the 1st time vital incidents in British/Irish historical past, together with how the leaders of British alternate unions have been complicit in Belfast loyalist sectarianism; the bothered nature of the Labour Party's relatives with its Irish group; and the way the Bolsheviks criticised British Marxists over their state of being inactive on eire. the writer additionally appears at socialist debates at the compatibility of Irish nationalism with socialism and the contentious 'Ulster question'. contributors tested diversity from Ramsay MacDonald to Sylvia Pankhurst.

Based on in-depth study - with assets starting from newly came upon writings to experiences of police spies - Hesitant Comrades is a scholarly, provocative and groundbreaking point of view at the fragile courting among the British left and the Irish revolution.

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