National Labour Party (Ireland)

National Labour Party
Páirtí Náisiúnta an Lucht Oibre
ChairpersonThomas Foran
General SecretarySeamus O'Farrell (1947)
Leaders
Founded1944
Dissolved1950
Split fromLabour Party
Merged intoLabour Party
Ideology
Union AffiliationIrish 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]

  1. ^ Mac Coille, Cathal (6 February 2016). "Agus tá na torthaí istigh…olltoghchán eile!". Archived from the original on 10 December 2019. Retrieved 23 September 2021.
  2. ^ Barberis, McHugh and Tyldesley (2005).