SOCIAL DEMOCRATIC AND LABOUR PARTY

the largest Nationalist party in Northern Ireland, distinguished from the province's other leftist and Republican groups by its commitment to political and nonviolent means of uniting Northern Ireland with the Irish Republic. The party was led from 1979 by John Hume. Paul Arthur Kimberly Cowell-Meyers Additional reading John Hume, A New Ireland: Politics, Peace, and Reconciliation, ed. by Jack Van Nandt and Tom McEnery (1996), is a detailed account of developments in the SDLP in the 1990s.