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:''See also the [[Independent Labour Party]], which was active in [[Ireland]] in the early twentieth century.''

The '''Independent Labour Group''' was a [[Irish nationalism|nationalist]] [[political party]] in [[Northern Ireland]] from the late 1950s to the mid-1960s.  Sometimes known as the '''Independent Labour Party''', it was formed in 1958 in [[Belfast]] by [[independent Labour]] MP [[Frank Hanna (politician)|Frank Hanna]], with the support of various local [[Roman Catholic]] clerics.  That year, the party wiped out the [[Labour Party (Ireland)|Irish Labour Party]] on [[Belfast City Council]].

[[John Joseph Brennan]] stood under the party banner in [[Belfast West (UK Parliament constituency)|Belfast West]] in the [[1959 United Kingdom general election|1959 UK general election]], where he received 37.6% of the votes cast, then stood in Belfast Falls in the [[1962 Northern Ireland general election]].  Hanna continued to hold his [[Belfast Central (Northern Ireland Parliament constituency)|Belfast Central]] seat for the organisation.

In the [[1965 Northern Ireland general election]], Brennan took over Hanna's seat, having joined the [[National Democratic Party (Northern Ireland)|National Democratic Party]], for which Brennan was elected; the remainder of the party appears to have joined or disintegrated by this point.

==References==
*[http://www.election.demon.co.uk/stormont/biographies.html Northern Ireland Parliamentary Election Results: Biographies]
*[http://www.election.demon.co.uk/geresults.html General Election Results: 1885-1979] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120301061804/http://www.election.demon.co.uk/geresults.html |date=1 March 2012 }}
*[[Michael Farrell (activist)|Michael Farrell]], ''Northern Ireland: The Orange State''
*Graham S. Walker, ''The Politics of Frustration: Harry Midgley and the Failure of Labour in Northern Ireland''
*Enda Staunton, ''The Nationalists of Northern Ireland 1918-1973''

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