Irish Left Archive

#OnThisDay 7th September 1983 a referendum was held to add a "right to life of the unborn" to the Irish Constitution, legally blocking all abortion.

After decades of pro-choice campaigning, the amendment was repealed in 2018.

Here are some documents from the 1983 campaign: https://www.leftarchive.ie/subject/2639/

#Ireland #Abortion #RepealTheEighth #Repealed #OTD

Published #OnThisDay 6th September 1974:

"British Spies Still at Work" "Cork Dockers Consider Action against Beef Fleet"

The Irish People, from Official Sinn Féin.

https://www.leftarchive.ie/document/276/

#OTD #IrishHistory #IrishPolitics #OfficialSinnFéin #TheIrishPeople

Published #OnThisDay 5th September 1984:

Voice of Revolution, Communist Party of Ireland (Marxist-Leninist)

https://www.leftarchive.ie/document/517/

#OTD #IrishPolitics #IrishHistory #CPIML #VoiceOfRevolution #Maoism

Published #OnThisDay 5th September 1981:

Armagh/H-Block News, from the Armagh/H-Block Action Group, associated with the Communist Party of Ireland (Marxist-Leninist).

https://www.leftarchive.ie/document/5819/

#OTD #HungerStrikes #IrishPolitics #IrishHistory #CPIML

Published #OnThisDay, 5th September 1975:

The Irish People, from Official Sinn Féin.

https://www.leftarchive.ie/document/2967/

#OTD #IrishHistory #IrishPolitics #OfficialSinnFéin #TheIrishPeople

New document:

"No to Extradition!"

Spirit of Freedom, November 14th 1987, from the Communist Party of Ireland (Marxist-Leninist).

https://www.leftarchive.ie/document/6615/

#IrishPolitics #IrishHistory #CPIML #SpiritOfFreedom #Maoism

Thanks to @IrishExaminer@mastodon.ie for the mention of the Irish Left Archive Podcast.

Anyone interested in Irish political history and the Irish Civil War, do listen to Dr. Brian Hanley's Dirty War in Dublin, and our recent interview with him.

https://www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle/artsandculture/arid-41214241.html

#IrishPodcasts #Podcast

From the Progressive Unionist Party (PUP) in 1985:

Sharing Responsibility

"The Progressive Unionist Party is the only Socialist Unionist Party in N. Ireland. It is a party committed to restoring consensus politics to this region."

https://www.leftarchive.ie/document/4702/

#IrishHistory #IrishPolitics #ProgressiveUnionistParty #PUP

#OnThisDay, 1st September 2001, the founding conference of Socialist Youth, the youth section of the Socialist Party, took place.

https://www.leftarchive.ie/calendar/on-this-day/09/01/#event-5739

#OTD #IrishPolitics #SocialistYouth #SocialistParty #CWI

New document:

The Irish Republican Congress, from the Irish Communist Organisation.

"In this pamphlet an attempt is made to give an idea of the poli­tical events in the Free State, or 26 County neo-colony of Bri­tish imperialism, in the year 1934, and to do this as far as possible by using extracts from newspapers published in that year."

https://www.leftarchive.ie/document/6611/

#IrishHistory #IrishPolitics #IrishCommunistOrganisation #RepublicanCongress

Published #OnThisDay 27th August 1974:

"An Analysis of the Significance of the Ulster Workers’ Strike, May 14th-30th, 1974. A Series of Articles from RED PATRIOT Editorial Staff"

Published by the "Necessity for Change Institute of Anti-Imperialist Studies", the Communist Party of Ireland (Marxist-Leninist).

https://www.leftarchive.ie/document/1822/

#IrishHistory #IrishPolitics #UlsterWorkersCouncilStrike #CPIML #Maoism

Published #OnThisDay 25th August 1969:

Barricades Bulletin, Special Edition.

"No Peace Until Unionism is Smashed"

Barricades Bulletin was produces by the Derry Labour Party Young Socialists in August and September of 1969, during which Free Derry was barricaded to prevent British troops and B-Specials entering the area after the Battle of the Bogside.

https://www.leftarchive.ie/document/423/

#IrishHistory #IrishPolitics #FreeDerry #DerryLabourParty #Bogside

Rebel, No. 52: Capital & State.

From Revolutionary Struggle, May 1982.

Revolutionary Struggle was an active in Dublin from 1975 until the mid 1980s. It was involved in the production of the Ripening of Time publication and Rebel.

https://www.leftarchive.ie/document/2368/

#IrishPolitics #IrishHistory #RevolutionaryStruggle #Rebel

Published #OnThisDay 22nd August 1975:

The Irish People, from Official Sinn Féin.

https://www.leftarchive.ie/document/2852/

#IrishHistory #IrishPolitics #OfficialSinnFéin #IrishPeople

In our latest podcast episode, we spoke to historian Brian Hanley about his new podcast looking at the Irish Civil War, Dirty War in Dublin.

https://podcast.leftarchive.ie/@ILAPodcast/episodes/dirty-war-in-dublin-with-brian-hanley/

#Podcast #IrishPodcast #Ireland #Politics #History #CivilWar

#OnThisDay 21st of August 1984, a group of partners and children of striking miners visited Tallaght during the miners’ strike in Britain. The week-long trip was organised by the Tallaght Committee to Support Mine Workers, to give striking workers’ families a holiday.

https://www.leftarchive.ie/calendar/on-this-day/08/21/#event-5760

#OTD #History #MinersStrike #NUM

New document:

The First Dáil. A leaflet from Labour, circa 2010s.

https://www.leftarchive.ie/document/6599/

#IrishPolitics #IrishHistory #Labour

New website from the Donegal LGBTQ+ Heritage Project, exploring the history and stories of the LGBTQ+ community.

https://donegallgbtqheritage.com/

#History #Heritage #Ireland #Donegal #LGBTQ+ #Archives