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The party was founded on 21 August 1970, when six Stormont MPs (Gerry Fitt, Republican Labour Party; Austin Currie, Nationalist Party; Paddy Devlin, Northern Ireland Labour Party; John Hume, Ivan Cooper and Paddy O'Hanlon, Independent) and one Senator (Paddy Wilson, Republican Labour), joined to form a new party. [5]
Oct 10, 2024 · The SDLP was formed in August 1970. Its cumbersome title is an indication of the hybrid nature of the party, whose founders included members of the Republican Labour Party, the Northern Ireland Labour Party, and the Nationalist Party, as well as three independent members of Parliament from Northern Ireland. The party immediately established its ...
The Social Democratic and Labour Party (SDLP) is a Northern Irish political party that was formed in the early 1970s at the height of the ‘Troubles’. The party‘s first leader was Gerry Fitt.
Jan 12, 2020 · The SDLP was formed in the spirit of optimism for an alternative within chaos. Earlier that month, the British Army fired rubber bullets in Belfast for the first time. In June, riots had broken...
The Social Democratic and Labour Party was founded in 1970 as an anti-sectarian political movement with the aim of reconciling the people of the island in a united, just and prosperous new Ireland.
The SDLP was for many years the leading institution representing the catholic minority in Northern Ireland since the province's establishment. It was formed in 1971 as a coalition between the old Nationalist Party members, republican socialists, and civil rights campaigners.
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Dec 4, 2019 · 4 December 2019. Once the dominant nationalist party in Northern Ireland, the Social Democratic and Labour Party (SDLP) lost all its seats at the last general election in 2017. It lost the...
