Irish Examiner journalist picks up award for Workers’ Party book

A HISTORY of the Workers’ Party written by Irish Examiner journalist Scott Millar and historian Brian Hanley has won the prestigious Brian Farrell prize for the best political science book published last year.

The award was presented to the authors by the Political Studies Association of Ireland (PSAI) at the weekend. After accepting the award for the book, The Lost Revolution: The Story of the Official IRA and the Workers’ Party, from PSAI president Professor Gary Murphy, Dr Hanley said he was honoured to be recognised by his academic peers for the work, which took over five years to research and write.

Dr Hanley said. “The importance and impact on modern Ireland of the Workers’ Party and its predecessor organisations has long been underplayed, both due to the bitter split within the party when it was at its political high-point in 1992 and a tendency to downplay the importance of left-wing movements in a largely conservative society.”