National Labour Party

The Oxford Companion to Irish History | 2007 | 700+ words | Copyright

National Labour Party, a political party founded by a group of deputies who were expelled from the Labour Party on 2 February 1944 following their earlier resignations from the parliamentary party. These deputies, members of the Irish Transport and General Workers' Union, had objected to the presence of radical socialist James Larkin in the party since 1941; personal rivalries and power struggles within the trade union movement apparently reinforced ideological disagreements. (See irish congress of trade unions.)

The party maintained its small Dáil presence after the general elections of 1944 (2.7 per cent of the vote, four seats) and 1948 (2.6 per cent, five seats), and following the latter it entered the interparty government, where its leader, James Everett, was given a post. This was followed quickly by reconciliation with the Labour Party, which National Labour rejoined in June 1950.

John Coakley

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