Irish Left Archive
@ila@leftarchive.ieDigital collection of political material from the Irish Left.
#Ireland #Politics #History #Activism #IrishLeftArchive #SnapshotsOfPoliticalAction
"Ní Saoirse go Saoirse na mBan! All-Ireland Abortion Rights Now!"
A sticker from Éirígí in 2018.
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"The Prospects Before Us"
A 1978 pamphlet by Rayner Lysaght of the Revolutionary Marxist Group (RMG) setting out their political position and analysing Republicanism and Irish politics.
https://www.leftarchive.ie/document/357/
#IrishLeftArchive #Trotskyism #RevolutionaryMarxistGroup #FourthInternational #USFI
The Prospects Before Us (1978) — Revolutionary Marxist Group
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@ILAPodcast@podcast.leftarchive.ieTerry Dunne: Anti-war and Activist Movements, Historical Sociology, and "Peelers and Sheep"
In 2021, Terry Dunne joined us to discuss his political background, and his historical sociology research in the area of agrarian agitation and his podcast, Peelers and Sheep.
Dated term for Irish Travellers
"In the final analysis whatever the hypocritical mouthings of our "pillars of society" about aid to people overseas, it is on their treatment of the poor, the [Travellers] and the working class at home that they must be judged."
A 1976 article from The Bottom Dog, "working class paper of North Munster", by Jim MacNamara on an example of open hostility to Irish Travellers from a local Urban Councillor.
![An article from The Bottom Dog headlined: O'Meara and Itinerants, and showing a cut out of a Nenagh Guardian article titled: Mr O'Meara hits at itinerants' sympathisrs [sic]](https://posts.leftarchive.ie/attachments/thumbnails/d6c4e45f543c6dbc22f4a7811e46d927f7a3d9fcfb6fb93e04aea463eb56fc70/BD_travellers.jpeg)
An illustration from Banshee, magazine of Irish Women United, from 1976.
Later this year, Ireland will have a referendum on gender equality, to remove references to "women in the home" and enshrine equality in the constitution.
#GenderEquality #Referendum #IrishWomenUnited #Banshee #IrishLeftArchive
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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 2 years 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
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@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
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@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