Irish Left Archive
@ila@leftarchive.ieDigital collection of political material from the Irish Left.
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Published #OnThisDay, 1st April 1972:
"Military Dictatorship in Northern Ireland" – Freedom, Anarchist Weekly.
Freedom, Vol. 33, No. 14 (1972) — Freedom Press
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New document:
"Down With Racist Anti-Traveller Attacks!"
From the Dublin Spartacist Group, August 1997.
Down With Racist Anti-Traveller Attacks! (1997) — Dublin Spartacist Group
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New podcast episode!
We talk to Aidan Beatty about his book, The Party is Always Right: The Untold Story of Gerry Healy and British Trotskyism. We discuss the history of the Socialist Labour League and Workers’ Revolutionary Party in the UK; the role of the party and their Galway-born leader, Gerry Healy, in Trotskyism; the implosion of the party in 1985 with allegations of sexual abuse against Healy in a context of an already diminished Left; and responses to Aidan’s book.
Irish Left Archive shared 2 days ago
@ILAPodcast@podcast.leftarchive.ieThe Party is Always Right: The Untold Story of Gerry Healy and British Trotskyism, with Aidan Beatty
🎙️New Episode! We talk to historian Aidan Beatty about his book, The Party is Always Right: The Untold Story of Gerry Healy and British Trotskyism.
Published #OnThisDay, 29th March 1974:
Comment, newspaper of the British & Irish Communist Organisation (BICO) – "For the working class – the class that holds the future in its hands".
Comment, Vol. 3, No. 4 (1974) — British and Irish Communist Organisation
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#OnThisDay 29th March 1975, The Non-Stop Connolly Show, a 24-hour play dramatising the life of James Connolly by Margaretta D’Arcy and John Arden, was first performed.
The Non-Stop Connolly Show - Liberty Hall / Easter Week 1975 (1975)
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SIPTU Fightback, No. 7 (1998)
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Published #OnThisDay 22nd March 1974:
"Step Back to to 1921 and Civil War?"
An Phoblacht, Vol. 4, No. 12. Newspaper of Sinn Féin.
An Phoblacht, Vol. 4, No. 12 (1974) — Sinn Féin
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Published #OnThisDay 19th March 1976:
The Bottom Dog, Vol. 3, No. 60.
The Bottom Dog was a Limerick-based newspaper, published from 1975 and subtitled “the working class paper of North Munster”.
The Bottom Dog, Vol. 3, No. 60 (1976)
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New document:
"Why Are We Not Letting You Into the Book of Kells?"
From the Trinity Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) campaign to force Trinity College Dublin to divest from Israel, 2024.
Why Are We Not Letting You Into the Book of Kells? (2024) — Trinity BDS
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#OnThisDay 12th March 2003: "Monster Meeting" - Crumlin Anti-Bin Tax Campaign
From the Anti-Bin Tax Campaign of the early 2000s in Dublin. The campaign led to the imprisonment of Socialist Party and Irish Socialist Network members. Waste collection was subsequently privatised.
Crumlin Anti-Bin Tax Campaign - Monster Meeting (2003)
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New document:
A leaflet from the Belfast branch of Community Action Tenants Union (CATU) produced circa 2024 against the scapegoating of migrants for housing and cost of living issues.
Remember (2024 c.) — Community Action Tenants Union
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On International Women's Day #IWD2025, here are some of the publications from feminist Irish groups in our collection.
First up, Fownes Street Journal, which was produced between 1972 and '74 by the Women's Liberation Movement.
https://www.leftarchive.ie/document/2461/
The short-lived but influential Irish Women's Liberation Movement is known for events such as the Contraception Train and an appearance on The Late Late Show that reportedly descended into a shouting match with Garret FitzGerald of Fine Gael. It was renamed Women's Liberation Movement in 1972, though members also formed other groups at that time.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irish_Women%27s_Liberation_Movement
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Fownes Street Journal, Vol. 1, No. 2 (1972) — Women's Liberation Movement
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"Why was Garland Shot?"
The Irish People, newspaper of Official Sinn Féin, #OnThisDay, 7th March 1975.
Seán Garland was shot in an INLA assassination attempt. The INLA had split from the Official IRA months previously, resulting in a violent feud.
https://www.leftarchive.ie/document/6906/
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The Irish People, Vol. 3, No. 10 (1975) — Sinn Féin [Official]
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Irish Left Archive shared 29 days ago
@aonrud@mastodon.ieA question for #webdev experts: #Bluesky seems to preserve line breaks and tabs in a #HTML title - should they?
I'm fairly sure it shouldn't (https://html.spec.whatwg.org/#the-title-element), and JS `document.title` seems to normalise whitespace, so it seems like you'd have to actively try to.
New document: Red Action, Vol. 3, No. 2, August/September 1998.
From the eponymous UK organisation, Red Action, this issue dates from the period of the Good Friday Agreement.
Red Action, Vol. 3, No. 2 (1998) — Red Action [Britain]
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The 1981 hunger strikes began on the 1st of March, when Bobby Sands began refusing food. A total of ten people died before the strike ended in October.
Contemporary documents from the National H-Block / Armagh Committee, People's Democracy, IRSP and others are in our collection here: https://www.leftarchive.ie/subject/2692/
Event - Hunger Strikes, 1980/81
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New podcast episode!
We talk to historian Gearóid Ó Faoleán about his research into support for the Provisional IRA in the Republic of Ireland during the Troubles.
Irish Left Archive shared a month ago@ILAPodcast@podcast.leftarchive.ieGearóid Ó Faoleán: The Provisional IRA in the Republic of Ireland
🎙️New episode! We talk to historian Gearóid Ó Faoleán about his research into support for the Provisional IRA in the Republic of Ireland during the Troubles.
New document: Young Republican, Summer 1983, from Na Fianna Éireann.
https://www.leftarchive.ie/document/7551/
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Young Republican, Summer 1983 (1983) — Na Fianna Éireann [SF]
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