Welsh Journals

ascendancy in Ireland towards national festivals between 1790 and 1829, the year of Catholic emancipation. The measured policy of successive viceroys was to ensure that the celebration of St. Patrick was encouraged, while the stock of William III and Orange Day subsided. G. S. Walker's analysis of the Commonwealth Labour Party in Ireland, 1942-47, traces a brief schism from the Northern Ireland Labour Party during the war, and its unsuccessful endeavours to divert Ulster politics from its main themes of nationalism and sectarianism. Since those days, the NILP has followed the same path of decline as its former offshoot, and for the same appalling reasons. A reprint has been published in card cover of Llafur, Vol. 1 (1972-5). It is available from the secretary of the Society for the Study of Welsh Labour History, Neil Evans, Coleg Harlech, Harlech, Gwynedd LL46 2PU, at a price of £ 2.95 ( £ 3.85 by post). Another recent production from Coleg Harlech is Neil Evans's admirable centenary lecture for the Cardiff Trades Council on 3 November 1984, Cardiff: Labour Tradition. It is especially interesting on the stimulus provided by the 1911 transport strike and on Labour: progress in the 1920s. It is obtainable from the Warden: Secretary, Coleg Harlech (price 35p). K.O.M.