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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 145. Not illustrated. Chapters: Social Democratic and Labour Party Politicians, Ivan Cooper, Seamus Mallon, Eddie Mcgrady, Paddy Devlin, Carmel Hanna, Alasdair Mcdonnell, Denis Haughey, Hugh Logue, Alban Maginness, Danny O'connor, Austin Currie, Claude Wilton, John Fee, Brid Rodgers, Joe Hendron, Conall Mcdevitt, Patricia Lewsley, Sean Farren, Donovan Mcclelland, Sdlp Youth, Dominic Bradley, Annie Courtney, Alex Attwood, John Dallat, Joe Byrne, Frank Feely, Arthur Doherty, Paddy O'hanlon, John Tierney, Tommy Gallagher, P. J. Bradley, Dolores Kelly, Eugene Mcmenamin, Mary Bradley, Patsy Mcglone, Paddy Mcgowan, Hugh Casey, Marietta Farrell, Michael Coyle, Pat Ramsey, Thomas Burns, Malachi Curran, Declan O'loan, Eamon O'neill, Martin Morgan, Tom Kelly, Helen Quigley, Hugh Carr, Jonathan Stephenson, Paddy Wilson, Peter O'hagan, List of Social Democratic and Labour Party Mps, Patrick Mccarthy. Excerpt: The Social Democratic and Labour Party or SDLP (Irish: ) is one of the two major Irish nationalist parties in Northern Ireland. During the Troubles, the SDLP was consistently the most popular nationalist party in Northern Ireland, but since the Provisional IRA cease-fire in 1994, it has lost ground to its republican rival Sinn Fein, which, in 2001, became the more popular of the two parties for the first time. During the Troubles, the SDLP was distinct from Sinn Fein above all in its rejection of violence, in contrast to Sinn Fein's support for the Provisional IRA. The SDLP is a social-democratic party, affiliated to the Socialist International. Through the SDLP's membership of the Party of European Socialists, the SDLP has fraternal links with major social-democratic parties throughout Europe, including the Irish Labour Party and British Labour Party. It is understood that the three parties have an unspoken electoral agreement. The SDL...