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An account of Nan Joyce’s election candidacy and the background of the Committee for the Rights of Travellers can be heard on the excellent The Others podcast by Alan Kinsella (@electionlit@mastodon.online): https://theothersthealankinsellapodcast.wordpress.com/2021/03/24/nan-joyce-the-first-member-of-the-travelling-community-to-run-for-the-dail/
#OnThisDay 24th of November 1982, Nan Joyce became the first Traveller to stand in an Irish election.
Joyce was co-chairperson of the Committee for the Rights of Travellers, which had been formed earlier that year. Among her policies was a call for full civil and human rights for all Travellers as full Irish citizens and a Minister to co-ordinate Traveller welfare provision in the country.
You can read an account of the Committee and the background to its formation in this article: https://www.leftarchive.ie/article/5703/
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Traveller Activism in the 1980s: The Committee for the Rights of Travellers and Mincéir Misli
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