ABSTRACT
The volume contains seven chapters that look at various aspects of relationship across the twentieth century. As Sam Porter and Denis O'Hearn wrote in the mid-1990s in New Left Review, 'British Left attitudes toward Ireland have long troubled Irish socialist republicans'. The outbreak of the conflict in 1968 and the arrival of British troops in Derry in 1969 changed the outlook of the British left towards what was happening in Northern Ireland and the wider 'Irish Question'. This volume seeks to expand upon Finn's work and look at different episodes in the history of the relationship between the British left and Ireland across the twentieth century. The articles in this issue build on new developments in British left history and expand on them, taking international and transnational perspectives to examine the long relationship between the lefts in Britain and Ireland.
