Sunningdale, the Ulster Workers' Council Strike and the Struggle for Democracy in Northern Ireland

Sunningdale, the Ulster Workers' Council Strike and the Struggle for Democracy in Northern Ireland

by David McCann, Cillian McGrattan

240 pages· 2017· ISBN 9781526108388
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The 'Sunningdale experiment' of 1973-4 witnessed the first attempt to establish peace in Northern Ireland through power-sharing. However, its provisions, particularly the cross-border 'Council of Ireland', proved to be a step too far. The experiment floundered amid ongoing paramilitary-led violence, finally collapsing in May 1974 as a result of the Ulster Workers' Council strike. Drawing on new scholarship from some of the top political historians working on the period, this book presents a series of reflections on how key protagonists struggled with notions of power-sharing and the 'Irish dimension', and how those struggles inhibited a deepening of democracy and the ending of violence for so long.

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