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 Irish Republican Army (IRA) members and Protestant trade unionists around Victor Halley, all based in West Belfast.

In the 1945 Northern Ireland general election, 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

Defunct political parties in Northern Ireland
Unionist and Loyalist: Commonwealth Labour Party | Protestant Unionist Party | Ulster Constitution Party | Ulster Democratic Party | Ulster Popular Unionist Party | Ulster Progressive Unionist Association | Ulster Unionist Labour Association | Unionist Party of Northern Ireland | United Ulster Unionist Council | United Ulster Unionist Party | Vanguard Progressive Unionist Party | Volunteer Political Party Nationalist and Republican: All Ireland Anti-Partition League | Anti-Partition of Ireland League | Federation of Labour | Irish Independence Party | National Democrats | National Party of Northern Ireland | Official Sinn Féin | People's Democracy | Red Republican Party | Saor Éire | Socialist Republican Party | Unity Left wing#: Belfast Labour Party | Communist Party of Ireland (Marxist-Leninist) | Communist Party of Northern Ireland | Democratic Left | Independent Socialist Party | Labour Coalition | Labour Party of Northern Ireland | League for a Workers Republic | Northern Ireland Independent Labour Party | Northern Ireland Labour Party | Republican Labour Party | Socialist Labour Alliance | United Labour Party | Workers League Ulster nationalist: British Ulster Dominion Party | Ulster Independence Movement | Ulster Independence Party | Ulster Movement for Self-Determination Other: Northern Ireland Women's Coalition | Social Credit Party of Great Britain and Northern Ireland | Ulster Liberal Party
#Excluding those left-wing parties which were avowedly nationalist/republican or unionist/loyalist.