Socialist Republican Party (Ireland)

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For the party founded by James Connolly, see Irish Socialist Republican Party.

The Socialist Republican Party was an Irish republican political party in Northern Ireland. It was founded in 1944 by a coalition of former Nationalist Party members, former IRA members and Protestant trade unionists around Victor Halley, all based in West Belfast.

In the Northern Ireland general election, 1945, the party won 5,497 votes and Harry Diamond took the Belfast Falls seat. He held the seat in 1949, with no other candidate contesting it. A couple of months later, the group joined the Irish Labour Party. Diamond later stood for Parliament under a variety of labels before forming the Republican Labour Party.

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  • Peter Barberis, John McHugh and Mike Tyldesley, Encyclopedia of British and Irish Political Organizations
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