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Dublin, the SDLP and the Sunningdale Agreement: Maximalist Nationalism and Path Dependency

Cillian McGrattan

Contemporary British History, Volume: 23, Issue: 1, Pages: 61 - 78

Swansea University Author: Cillian McGrattan

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DOI (Published version): 10.1080/13619460801990138

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This paper seeks to fill a gap in the literature on the Sunningdale agreement as regards the role played by the two nationalist negotiators—the Social Democratic and Labour Party and the Dublin, Fine Gael–Labour coalition government. Utilising recently released archival material and internal party s...

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Published in: Contemporary British History
ISSN: 1361-9462 1743-7997
Published: 2009
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