Irish Left Archive

#OnThisDay 24th of November 1982, Nan Joyce became the first Traveller to stand in an Irish election.

https://www.leftarchive.ie/calendar/on-this-day/11/24/#event-5712

This article provides some of the history and background to the Committee for the Rights of Travellers and Nan Joyce's campaign: https://www.leftarchive.ie/article/5703/

#IrishTravellers #TravellersRights #Elections #OTD #IrishHistory

New documents:

Election leaflet and sample ballot from the 2022 Northern Ireland Assembly elections, for Jemma Dolan of Sinn Féin, running in Fermanagh / South Tyrone.

https://www.leftarchive.ie/document/6567/

https://www.leftarchive.ie/document/6568/

#Ireland #NorthernIreland #Politics #NIAssembly #Elections #SinnFéin #AE2022

#OnThisDay 15th June 1989 a general election and European parliament election were held in Ireland.

The GE resulted in the first Fianna Fáil & Progressive Democrat government. It also saw the election of the first TD from the Green Party and increased seats for the Workers Party and Labour.

https://www.leftarchive.ie/subject/2232/

#OTD #IrishHistory #Elections #GeneralElection

#OnThisDay 24th May 2007, a General Election was held in Ireland.

https://www.leftarchive.ie/subject/3348/

#IrishPolitics #Elections #OTD

#OnThisDay 3rd May 1979, the SDLP manifesto for the Westminister elections.

https://www.leftarchive.ie/document/341/

#IrishLeft #Elections #SDLP

#OnThisDay 31st March 1966, Westminster elections were held in Northern Ireland. All seats were won by the Ulster Unionist Party, with the exception of West Belfast, where Gerry Fitt won the seat for the Republican Labour Party.

Sinn Féin newspaper, The United Irishman, reported an "Election Rout of Republicans":

"No matter how tinted the glasses through which one might look, the results of the 1966 Imperial Elections in the Six Counties show a rout of the Republicans."

https://www.leftarchive.ie/subject/6358/

#OTD #UnitedIrishman #SinnFéin #GerryFitt #RepublicanLabourParty #Elections #Westminster

#OnThisDay 31st March 1966, Westminster elections were held in Northern Ireland. All seats were won by the Ulster Unionist Party, with the exception of West Belfast, where Gerry Fitt won the seat for the Republican Labour Party.

Sinn Féin newspaper, The United Irishman, reported an "Election Rout of Republicans":

"No matter how tinted the glasses through which one might look, the results of the 1966 Imperial Elections in the Six Counties show a rout of the Republicans."

https://www.leftarchive.ie/subject/6358/

#OTD #UnitedIrishman #SinnFéin #GerryFitt #RepublicanLabourParty #Elections #Westminster