Irish Left Archive

We've just added lots of new entries to our bibliography of Irish Left periodicals, which you can find here: https://www.leftarchive.ie/information/publications-bibliography.

Thanks to Ciarán Crossey for his help! If you are aware of any periodicals we're missing, please let us know.

#Research #Bibliography #History #Ireland #Politics

#OnThisDay 1st June 1984 Ronald Reagan arrived in Ireland on a state visit that was met with widespread protests.

https://www.leftarchive.ie/calendar/on-this-day/06/01/#event-6260

#IrishPolitics #IrishHistory #Reagan #OTD

#OnThisDay 31st May 2012 a referendum was held in Ireland to ratify the European Fiscal Compact.

Here's a leaflet from the United Left Alliance opposing the referendum.

https://www.leftarchive.ie/document/3197/

#IrishHistory #IrishPolitics #Referendum #EU #UnitedLeftAlliance

New document:

Socialist View, No. 8, Spring 2001, from the Socialist Party.

https://www.leftarchive.ie/document/6465/

#IrishPolitics #IrishHistory #SocialistParty #SocialistView

Published #OnThisDay 28th May, 1973:

"Revolutionary Nationalism, Class Struggle, and Problems of Party Building in Ireland"

An article by Gerry Foley on Official Sinn Féin, from Intercontinental Press, the magazine of the Fourth International.

https://www.leftarchive.ie/document/1488/

#IrishPolitics #IrishHistory #OfficialSinnFéin #IntercontinentalPress #FourthInternational

#OnThisDay 28th May 1912, the Irish Labour Party was founded by James Connolly, James Larkin and William O'Brien as the political arm of the Irish Trades Union Congress (ITUC).

https://www.leftarchive.ie/organisation/210/

#OTD #IrishLeft #IrishHistory #Labour #ITUC #TradeUnionism

#OnThisDay 28th May 1949, the Socialist Party of Ireland was founded.

"On May 28th, 1949, a number of workers, representing Socialist Groups in Dublin and Belfast, met in Belfast and decided that the Groups should coalesce and form the Socialist Party of Ireland. That decision was subsequently ratified by the members of the Dublin and Belfast Groups; and so was born the first political party in Ireland to publicly and unequivocally declare its object to be the establishment of Socialism."

The party was associated with the Socialist Party of Great Britain (SPGB) and later became the World Socialist Party.

https://www.leftarchive.ie/calendar/on-this-day/05/28/#event-4500

#OTD #IrishHistory #IrishPolitics #SocialistPartyOfIreland #SPGB #WorldSocialism

#OnThisDay 27th May 1978, the opening address of the Socialist Labour Party policy conference, given by party Chairman, Matt Merrigan.

https://www.leftarchive.ie/document/3118/

#OTD #IrishPolitics #IrishHistory #SocialistLabourParty

#OnThisDay 26th May 1987, a referendum was held on the Single European Act. When passed, the act established the European Single Market.

https://www.leftarchive.ie/subject/2235/

#IrishPolitics #IrishHistory #EuropeanUnion #Referendum #SingleEuropeanAct

#OnThisDay 25th May 2018, the referendum to repeal the 8th Amendment to the Irish constitution was held. The vote to remove the block on provision of abortion services was passed with 66% voting yes.

https://www.leftarchive.ie/subject/3762/

#IrishPolitics #OTD #Repeal #EighthAmendment #Abortion #Referendum

#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