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Finally, we finished the year speaking to Orla Egan and Megan Luddy O'Leary about their book, Diary of An Activist, which is an illustrated memoir of social activism in the 1980s and 90s in Cork.

https://www.leftarchive.ie/podcast/43-diary-of-an-activist-by-orla-egan-and-megan-luddy-/

#Cork #Activism #IrishLeftArchive #Podcast

In December, we had a special episode with Alan Kinsella of @electionlit@mastodon.online to introduce Snapshots of Political Action, a new joint project from Irish Election Literature and the Irish Left Archive, which aims to bring together material distributed at individual demonstrations, marches, rallies and protests in Ireland, providing a view of the different political strands and groups that come together in campaigns.

https://www.leftarchive.ie/podcast/42-snapshots-of-political-action-documenting-protest/

#Activism #Protest #SnapshotsOfPoliticalAction #IrishLeftArchive #Podcast

In March, we were joined by Mags O'Brien, who has been active in left campaigns and Trade Unionism since the 1980s. We discussed the divorce referendum campaigns of 1986 and 1995; her experience with the Freedom Flotilla to Gaza in 2011 - which was captured at sea and the crew held in an Israeli jail; her work as a tutor with the SIPTU College and combining her activism and trade unionism; and her edited volume, Left Lives in 20th Century Ireland Vol. 4 –- Women.

https://www.leftarchive.ie/podcast/37-mags-obrien-divorce-action-group-gaza-freedom-flotilla/

#Divorce #Palestine #TradeUnionism #Activism #IrishLeftArchive #Podcast

Since we've posted our first podcast of 2023 this week, here's a round up of interviews we did in 2022.

We took a bit of a longer break this year, but still added interviews with some fascinating guests from different strands of the left.

Many thanks to all our guests who have given us their time to be on the podcast, and to everyone who has been listening! We have plenty more episodes to come, so we look forward to speaking to more guests this year, and hopefully widen the range of left activism and organisations already covered.

#IrishLeftArchive #Politics #Activism #History #Ireland #Podcast

"Support Palestine!"

A poster from a demonstration on 4th June 2005 against Israel’s occupation of Palestine, from the Ireland Palestine Solidarity Campaign (IPSC).

The protest was held to during a soccer World Cup qualifying match between Ireland and Israel.

More from the protest here: https://www.leftarchive.ie/demonstration/6160/

#Ireland #Palestine #IPSC #Activism #Protest #SnapshotsOfPoliticalAction

New poster, from a 2015 march in support of the anti-water charges protestors arrested in Jobstown

Stop Political Policing: March in solidarity with the arrested protestors

https://www.leftarchive.ie/document/6242/

#Ireland #Politics #Activism #Protest #IrishLeftArchive

We have a new podcast episode lined up for tomorrow

Meanwhile, if you haven't listened to the latest one, we spoke to @orlaegan@mastodon.ie and Megan Luddy O'Leary about their recently published illustrated book, Diary of An Activist.

https://www.leftarchive.ie/podcast/43-diary-of-an-activist-by-orla-egan-and-megan-luddy-/

#Ireland #Left #Activism #Politics #IrishLeftArchive #Podcast