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Advance, November—December 1976.

Advance was published by the Socialist Party of Ireland (SPI) in the 1970s.

The SPI went on to form the Democratic Socialist Party in 1982, along with the Limerick Socialist Organisation.

https://www.leftarchive.ie/document/7420/

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Two Irish general elections occurred #OnThisDay, 6th June, in 1977 and 1997.

Here' the Socialist Party of Ireland's (SPI) Advance magazine profiling their candidate Eamonn O'Brien in 1977. The SPI went on to merge with the Democratic Socialist Party in the early 1980s, which ultimately merged with Labour in 1990. (It is not related to the current Socialist Party).

And from 1997, an analysis from Labour's Emmet Stagg in TILT of Labour's losses in that election (the party lost 16 TDs, going from 32 to 17).

https://www.leftarchive.ie/calendar/on-this-day/06/06/

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