Irish Left Archive

#OnThisDay 24th May 2007, a General Election was held in Ireland.

https://www.leftarchive.ie/subject/3348/

#IrishPolitics #Elections #OTD

Published #OnThisDay 24th May 1967:

"New Student Movement Formed" – the first issue of The Irish Student, from the Irish Student Movement (ISM).

The ISM was linked to the Internationalists, later the Communist Party of Ireland (Marxist-Leninist), and active in the late 1960s and early 1970s in various colleges and educational establishments across Ireland.

https://www.leftarchive.ie/document/297/

#OTD #IrishLeft #IrishPolitics #IrishHistory #CPIML #Maoism #IrishStudent

New document:

The Starry Plough, No. 7, 1989.

From the Irish Republican Socialist Party (IRSP).

https://www.leftarchive.ie/document/6440/

#IrishLeft #IrishPolitics #IrishHistory #IRSP #StarryPlough

The Dublin Anarchist Bookfair takes place tomorrow in the Teachers' Club.

In the latest Irish Left Archive Podcast episode, we spoke to Gregor Kerr about this year's fair and the history of the annual event: https://podcast.leftarchive.ie/@ILAPodcast/episodes/dublin-anarchist-bookfair-with-gregor-kerr

#Dublin #Politics #Anarchism #Activism

#OnThisDay 19th May 1993, local elections were held in Northern Ireland.

https://www.leftarchive.ie/subject/2725/

#IrishPolitics #Election #OTD

Published #OnThisDay 19th May, 1973:

Republican News, newspaper of Sinn Féin in the North.

https://www.leftarchive.ie/document/2388/

#IrishPolitics #IrishHistory #SinnFéin #RepublicanNews #OTD

The Dublin Anarchist Bookfair takes place this weekend, Saturday 20th May.

We spoke to Gregor Kerr about the bookfair in our most recent podcast episode: https://podcast.leftarchive.ie/@ILAPodcast/episodes/dublin-anarchist-bookfair-with-gregor-kerr

#IrishPolitics #Anarchism #Activism #Dublin

Website update:

We've added a calendar showing events occurring, demonstrations from the Snapshots of Political Action project, and documents published for each day.

Hopefully it's a useful way of finding interesting bits of left history in our database.

It's far from full, so if you come across an interesting event that's relevant or appears in materials in our collection, do please let us know and we'll add it!

https://www.leftarchive.ie/calendar/

#History #Ireland #Politics #OTD

#OnThisDay 17th May 2002 a general election was held in Ireland, resulting in the Fianna Fáil and Progressive Democrat coalition government being returned.

An article by Richard Boyd Barrett in Resistance, magazine of the Socialist Workers' Party, reflects on the performance of the left.

https://www.leftarchive.ie/subject/4823/

#OTD #IrishPolitics #GeneralElection #SocialistWorkersParty #SWP

#OnThisDay 16th May 1920 the Knocklong Soviet was declared.

Workers at the Cleeves Creamery in Knocklong, County Limerick occupied the facility, raising a red flag and displaying a banner reading “Knocklong Soviet Creamery - We make butter, not profits”.

https://www.leftarchive.ie/on-this-day/05/16/#event-5766

#OTD #IrishPolitics #IrishHistory #Knocklong #Soviet

#OnThisDay 15th May 2011:

Leaflets distributed by campaigns opposing the State Visit of the British Queen to Ireland, from the Irish Anti-War Movement, Socialist Workers' Party and Éirígí: https://www.leftarchive.ie/demonstration/6193/

#SnapshotsOfPoliticalAction #Monarchy #BritishMonarchy #Éirígí #IrishAntiWarMovement #SocialistWorkersParty #SWP

#OnThisDay 15th May 1974, the Ulster Workers Council Strike began

https://www.leftarchive.ie/on-this-day/05/15/#event-4504

#IrishPolitics #UlsterWorkersCouncil #Strike #OTD #IrishHistory

Pubished #OnThisDay 15th May 1987:

"Eight Irish Victims of British Democracy"

The Next Step, from the Revolutionary Communist Party, on the Loughgall killings.

https://www.leftarchive.ie/document/454/

#Loughgall #RevolutionaryCommunistParty #RCP

New document:

Shannon Airport and 21st Century War

Published in 2015 and edited by Roger Cole of Peace & Neutrality Alliance and John Lannon of Shannonwatch.

https://www.leftarchive.ie/document/6426/

#IrishNeutrality #PeaceAndNeutralityAlliance #PANA #Shannonwatch #ShannonAirport

#OnThisDay 14th May 2022:

A rally in Dublin called for the public ownership of the National Maternity Hospital.

Documents distributed at the protest: https://www.leftarchive.ie/demonstration/6070/

#IrishPolitics #SnapshotsOfPoliticalAction #NMH #Mastodaoine #Protest #Activism #OTD

#InternationalBrigades #BriogáidíIdirnáisiúnta #Spain #AnSpáinn #Donegal #DúnNaNGall

New podcast episode!

In episode 49 we speak to anarchist activist Gregor Kerr about the Dublin Anarchist Bookfair.

The Dublin Anarchist Bookfair was first held in 2006. After a few years' hiatus, the bookfair will be taking place again this month on Saturday the 20th May, organised by @IrishAnarchistNetwork@kolektiva.social and independent anarchists.

https://podcast.leftarchive.ie/@ILAPodcast/episodes/dublin-anarchist-bookfair-with-gregor-kerr

You can follow the Irish Left Archive Podcast on the Fediverse @ILAPodcast@podcast.leftarchive.ie

#Anarchism #Books #Dublin #IrishPolitics #Activism #IrishPodcast

"Cork Girl Meets Arafat"

A 1989 article from Irish Socialist, newspaper of the Communist Party of Ireland, on a student's invitation to meet Yassir Arafat for a school project.

#Palestine #PLO #Israel #Arafat #IrishSocialist