Irish Left Archive
@ila@leftarchive.ieDigital collection of political material from the Irish Left.
#Ireland #Politics #History #Activism #IrishLeftArchive #SnapshotsOfPoliticalAction
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@TheWildGees@mastodon.ieMargaret Barrington, writer, journalist and translator, died #OTD in 1982. Anti-fascist, she assisted refugees from Nazi Germany, edited UK Labour newspaper and wrote short stories. "Little marvel" of Irish literary scene but almost forgotten today 😢
Her short story Village Without Men was included in the anthology The Glass Shore: Short Stories by Women Writers from the North of Ireland
📷 public domain on Wikimedia Commons
Margaret Barrington - Wikipedia
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Irish Left Archive shared 1 year, 8 months ago@TheWildGees@mastodon.ieMary MacSwiney, 1 of 6 female TDs in 2nd Dáil, died #OTD in 1942. Women's Franchise League, Conradh na Gaeilge and founder member of Cork Cumann na mBan. Imprisoned after Rising, lost her teaching job. Strongly opposed Treaty. Hunger striker in Civil War. Became VP of Sinn Féin in 1927.
📷 by Keogh Brothers Ltd, public domain on Wikimedia Commons; information board at Mountjoy Prison, by the Wild Gees CC-BY-SA
Mary MacSwiney - Wikipedia
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@UL@mastodon.ieA history of Irish women in 50 objects
We're proud to see UL's Doctor Sindy Joyce's doctorate on this list
In 2019, Dr Joyce became the first Mincéir/Traveller in Ireland to be awarded a doctorate & later became Ireland's first full time Mincéir lecturer
https://www.irishtimes.com/life-style/people/2023/03/04/a-history-of-irish-women-in-50-objects-from-a-sheela-na-gig-to-fake-tan/#StudyatUL #IWD23 #Research #ResearchImpact #Education #University
A history of Irish women in 50 objects, from a Sheela na Gig to fake tan
The Irish Times
Irish Left Archive shared 1 year, 8 months ago
@workersliberty@union.placeSolidarity to all fighting capitalism and oppression on this International Women's Day!
On this day we remember how in 1979, in heavy snow, thousands of women gathered in Tehran for the first ever celebration of IWD in Iran.
5 days in 1979
Workers' Liberty
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@skibbereeneagle@mastodon.onlineHappy International Women's Day #IWD, a day which has its origins in the #Labour Movement and the 1908 strike by immigrant garment workers in New York.
#Labour #WomensRights #StrongerTogether #TradeUnions #IWD23
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@MinceirBeoir@mastodon.ieOn #IWD2023 let us reflect on some #IrishTraveller women's Stats
Die 11.5yrs younger
Suicide rates 6x higher
Community unemployment 83%
Community 1% reach 3rd level
1 Senator after 100yrs of StateStill experiencing Cultural
Genocide,Traveller Racism.So yes #EmbraceEquity
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@Ciaraioch@mastodon.ieSome Irish women of note, for the day that's in it.
Print: https://www.ciaraioch.com/artprints/p/mini-mn-10x12-inch-fine-art-print
Mini Mná (10x8 Inch Fine Art Print) — Ciaraíoch Art
Ciaraíoch Art
Irish Left Archive shared 1 year, 8 months ago
@belfastiww@kolektiva.socialOur statement for International Women's Day 2023:
https://www.onebigunion.ie/post/international-women-s-day-the-struggle-continues
International Women's Day: The Struggle Continues!
IWW Ireland
#OnThisDay 8th March 2018, an International Women's Day march for choice took place in Dublin calling for the repeal of the eighth amendment. Here are documents distributed at the march: https://www.leftarchive.ie/demonstration/6061/
The eighth amendment was repealed by referendum the following May, removing the block on abortion in Ireland.
#SnapshotsOfPoliticalAction #InternationalWomensDay #IWD #OTD #RepealTheEighth #Repealed
Political Material from: International Women's Day March for Choice, 8th March 2018
Irish Left Archive
"The votes are counted"
Starry Plough, magazine of the Irish Republican Socialist Party (IRSP), on the NI Assembly election which took place #OnThisDay 7th March 2007.
https://www.leftarchive.ie/document/view/1456/?page=13
#IrishLeftArchive #IrishRepublicanSocialistParty #IRSP #NIAssembly #IrishElections #IrishPolitics #OTD
View Document: Starry Plough, Easter 2007 - Irish Republican Socialist Party
Irish Left Archive
New document: Women's View, No. 6, Summer 1981
Women's View was published by Sinn Féin The Workers' Party (later The Workers' Party) throughout the 1980s.
Women's View, No. 6 (1981) — Sinn Féin The Workers' Party
Irish Left Archive
"Socialists, Republicanism and the Armed Struggle"
A pamphlet by Kieran Allen for the Socialist Workers' Movement, 1991.
https://www.leftarchive.ie/document/296/
#IrishLeftArchive #Socialism #Republicanism #SocialistWorkersMovement #SWM #SWP
Socialists, Republicanism and the Armed Struggle (1991) — Socialist Workers' Movement
Irish Left Archive
"James Connolly and the struggle for Marxism in Ireland"
A 1980 article from the Workers' Revolutionary Party journal, Labour Review.
James Connolly and the struggle for Marxism in Ireland (1980) — Workers Revolutionary Party
Irish Left Archive
A cartoon on the Iran-Contra scandal, in which the US sold arms to Iran, despite an embargo, to use the proceeds to fund the right-wing Contras' attempt to overthrow the Nicaraguan government.
From Ireland, the international magazine of the Workers' Party, 1987.
#Ireland #WorkersParty #IranContra #Reagan #IrishLeftArchive
Irish Left Archive shared 1 year, 8 months ago
Irish Left Archive shared 1 year, 8 months ago
@ILAPodcast@podcast.leftarchive.ieColm Breathnach: Workers Party, Democratic Left and Irish Socialist Network
Colm Breathnach talked to us about his experience in the Workers Party, as a local councillor in the 1990s, the split of Democratic Left, Irish Socialist Network and his subsequent activism in Scotland.
Published #OnThisDay 3rd March 1975:
"'Officials' Turn Against Their Own Past"
By Gerry Foley, from Intercontinental Press, magazine of the Fourth International.
https://www.leftarchive.ie/document/562/
#IrishLeftArchive #OfficialSinnFéin #IntercontinentalPress #FourthInternational #OTD
'Officials' Turn Against Their Own Past (1975) — Gerry Foley
Irish Left Archive
Irish Left Archive shared 1 year, 8 months ago@ILAPodcast@podcast.leftarchive.ieConor Kostick: SWP, Independent Left, and Left Organising and Activism
In our first series we spoke to activist, historian and author Conor Kostick about his political experience with the Socialist Workers' Party (SWP) and more recently with Independent Left.
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