Marie-Violaine Louvet is a Lecturer at Toulouse 1-Capitole University, France. She graduated from the Ecole Normale Supérieure de Cachan and is a holder of the Agrégation d'anglais. She completed her PhD in 2013 at Paris 3-Sorbonne Nouvelle University. Her research focuses on Ireland and transnational solidarity movements with the Middle East in the twentieth and twenty-first century.

Examining civil society
actors as well as states, this is a unique
exploration of Ireland and Israel and Palestine.

Uses extensive
historical research, this original approach considers where international
solidarity emerges from, what it is affected by and how it affects domestic
concerns.

Introduction.- Theoretical Introduction.- Part I. Irish Civil Society and transnational solidarity with Palestine.- 1. Origins and evolutions of pro-Palestine associations in the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland.- 2. Trade Unions in the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland and the question of boycott.- 3. A politicisation of Irish NGOs ?.- Part II. Republicanism and the colonial reading of the Middle East.- 4. Socialist republicanism, Marxism and the issue of Palestine.- 5. Republicanism and the Israel-Palestine conflict.- Part III. Pro-Israel Ireland.- 6. Voicing support for Israel: civil associations in the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland.- 7. Unionism, Loyalism and pro-Israel support.- Conclusion