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The evolution of Labour Party policy during the early Troubles: ‘Raising false hope and fuelling exaggerated fears’? The evolution of Labour Party policy during the early Troubles: ‘Raising false hope and fuelling exaggerated fears’?
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Rhetoric and reality in policy making Rhetoric and reality in policy making
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Bipartisanship and continuity: the politics of retrospective judgement Bipartisanship and continuity: the politics of retrospective judgement
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4 The memoir writing of the Wilson and Callaghan governments: the Labour Party and constitutional policy in Northern Ireland
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Published:December 2016
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Abstract
The purpose of this chapter is to analyse the memoir-writing of senior Labour Party (LP) politicians who were closely engaged in developing and implementing government policy towards Northern Ireland during the administrations of Harold Wilson (1964-70 and 1974-6) and James Callaghan (1976-9). Studying the memoirs of these leading policy-makers can furnish researchers with an understanding of the lived experience of individuals attempting to deal on a day-to-day basis with the intricacies of policy in a context (after 1970) of regular, and sometimes intense, political violence. The argument presented here is that the significant degree of continuity in the Labour governments’ constitutional policy towards Northern Ireland is not always reflected in the memoir-writing of the key protagonists. It is also probable that a fuller understanding of the way in which policy towards Northern Ireland was made, and thought about, by key protagonists, may cast a brighter light on the nature of the LP as a governing party more generally.
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