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Ulster Workers' Council (UWC) Strike - A Selected Reading List


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The following is a draft list of selected reading material on the Ulster Workers' Council (UWC) strike of May 1974. The list may be of use while the CAIN web pages on this Key Event are being completed. The reader should also consult the CAIN bibliography for other references to this event and for the full citations to the following items.

Key Texts

Anderson (1994) Fourteen May Days: The Inside Story of the Loyalist Strike of 1974.

Fisk (1975) The Point of No Return: The Strike Which Broke the British in Ulster.

Gillespie (1994) Loyalist Politics and the Ulster Workers' Council Strike of 1974. (PhD Thesis, QUB).

 

General Reference Texts

Bardon, Jonathan. (1992) A History of Ulster. Belfast: Blackstaff Press.
Bew, Paul., and Gillespie, Gordon. (1999) Northern Ireland: A Chronology of the Troubles 1968-1999. Dublin: Gill and Macmillan.
Coogan, Tim Pat. (1995) The Troubles: Ireland's Ordeal 1966-1996 and the Search for Peace. London: Hutchinson.
Elliott, Sydney., and Flakes, W.D. (1999) Northern Ireland: A Political Directory 1968-1999 Belfast: Blackstaff Press.
McKittrick, David. (2000) Making Sense of the Troubles. Belfast: Blackstaff Press.
McKittrick, David., Kelters, Seamus., Feeney, Brian., and Thornton, Chris. (1999) Lost Lives: The stories of the men, women and children who died as a result of the Northern Ireland troubles. Edinburgh: Mainstream Publishing.
Sutton, Malcolm. (1994) An Index of Deaths from the Conflict in Ireland 1969-1993. Belfast: Beyond the Pale. [See also the revised and updated Sutton Index of Deaths.]

 

See also the list of source material related to the UWC strike.

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