Sunningdale and the Ulster Workers’ Strike (Part Two): The loyalist ‘revolt’
In Part Two of a three-part series, Ciarán Dunbar looks at how the Ulster Workers Strike began, and why.
Northern Ireland had never seen the like – a rebellion against the state – by loyalists.
15 May 1974, the Ulster Workers Strike begins.
Northern Ireland had never seen the like – a rebellion against the state – by loyalists.
The strikers wanted an end to the Sunningdale power-sharing executive and everything that went with it.
It was mostly peaceful but was punctuated by the bloodiest day of the Troubles – the Dublin Monaghan bombings.
But who was behind the strike? What was the final straw that brought people out onto the streets? And what were they really striking against?
In Part Two of a three-part series on the Sunningdale Agreement and the Ulster Workers Strike, Ciarán Dunbar looks at how the Ulster Workers Strike began, and why.
His guests are Dr Michael Kerr, historian, political scientist and author of ‘The Destructors, the story of Northern Ireland's lost peace process’; Don Anderson, former BBC journalist and author of ‘Fourteen May Days - The inside story of the Loyalist Strike of 1974’; and Unionist commentator Alex Kane.
Sunningdale and the Ulster Workers Strike (Part Two): The loyalist 'revolt'
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