National Labour Party Páirtí Náisiúnta an Lucht Oibre | |
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Chairperson | Thomas Foran |
General Secretary | Seamus O'Farrell (1947) |
Leaders | |
Founded | 1944 |
Dissolved | 1950 |
Split from | Labour Party |
Merged into | Labour Party |
Ideology | |
Union Affiliation | Irish Transport and General Workers' Union |
The National Labour Party (Irish: Páirtí Náisiúnta an Lucht Oibre[1]) was an Irish political party active between 1944 and 1950. It was founded in 1944 from a rebel faction of the Labour Party, inspired by the intransigence of the incumbent leadership of the Irish Transport and General Workers' Union (ITGWU) against the majority of the party on the basis that communists had infiltrated Labour at the turn of the 1940s.[2]