Irish Left Archive
@ila@leftarchive.ieDigital collection of political material from the Irish Left.
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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/
#OTD #Politics #History #Ireland #SocialistPartyOfIreland #Labour #Advance #TILT #GeneralElection
On This Day, 6th June
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#OnThisDay 5th June 1982: March For Survival
Irish Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament marched from Parnell Square to Stephen's Green in Dublin, calling for pressure on the Irish government's position on disarmament and Irish neutrality.
March for Survival (1982) — Irish Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament
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New document:
"25 Years On – We Shall Overcome"
An Phoblacht Republican News marks the 25th anniversary of the deployment of British troops in the North in 1969.
From Déardaoin, 11 Lúnasa / Thursday, 11 August 1994, the newspaper of Sinn Féin.
An Phoblacht Republican News, Iml. 16, Uimh. 32 (1994) — Sinn Féin
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#OnThisDay 1st June 1979, a group of protestors began an occupation of the development at Wood Quay, as part of the campaign to preserve the historical mediaeval site from destruction. Dubbed “Operation Sitric”, after Sigtrygg Silkbeard, a Hiberno-Norse King of Dublin, the occupation lasted for three weeks.
Document Collection: Wood Quay Protests
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We've just added lots of new entries to our bibliography of Irish Left periodicals, which you can find here: https://www.leftarchive.ie/information/publications-bibliography.
Thanks to Ciarán Crossey for his help! If you are aware of any periodicals we're missing, please let us know.
Website update:
We've added a calendar showing events occurring, demonstrations from the Snapshots of Political Action project, and documents published for each day.
Hopefully it's a useful way of finding interesting bits of left history in our database.
It's far from full, so if you come across an interesting event that's relevant or appears in materials in our collection, do please let us know and we'll add it!
Calendar of Events
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"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
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From 2005, No Quarter, magazine of Anti-Fascist Action.
https://www.leftarchive.ie/document/37/
#Ireland #Politics #History #IrishLeftArchive #AntiFascistAction #Antifa
No Quarter, No. 2 (2005) — Anti-Fascist Action
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"Mass-Line in Education -- Revolutionary v Reactionary Line"
Published #OnThisDay 2nd February 1968, Words and Comment, No. 3, from the Communist Party of Ireland (Marxist-Leninist).
https://www.leftarchive.ie/document/1272/
#OTD #Ireland #Politics #History #CPIML #Maoism #IrishLeftArchive
Words and Comment, No. 3 (1968) — The Internationalists
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#OnThisDay 31st January 1971, the Cork Communist Organisation (CCO) resigned from the Irish Communist Organisation (ICO) in response to their position on Republicanism. It later became the Cork Workers Club (CWC).
The CCO was associated with Jim Lane, and those who had formerly been involved in Irish Revolutionary Forces and Saor Éire. Their position is outlined in their document On the Resignation of the Cork Branch of the Irish Communist Organisation.
https://www.leftarchive.ie/document/273/
The ICO was moving towards the "two nations theory" view, with which their later formation, B&ICO was known. The CCO and later CWC were Maoist-influenced.
#Ireland #Politics #History #OTD #IrishCommunistOrganisation #CorkCommunistOrganisation #IrishLeftArchive
On the Resignation of the Cork Branch of the Irish Communist Organisation (1972) — Cork Communist Organisation
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To mark the 50th anniversary of Bloody Sunday last year, we spoke to Dr. Brian Hanley about the reaction in the Republic of Ireland to the events in Derry on 30th January 1972, when British soldiers opened fire on civil rights marchers, killing 14 and injuring several others. The reaction in the South saw walkouts and strikes, a national day of mourning, the burning of the British embassy in Dublin, and mass protests around the country.
https://www.leftarchive.ie/podcast/35-bloody-sunday-reactions-in-the-republic-of-ireland/
#Ireland #Politics #History #BloodySunday #BloodySunday51 #IrishLeftArchive #Podcast
Episode 35: Bloody Sunday: Reactions in the Republic of Ireland, with Brian Hanley — Irish Left Archive Podcast
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"What Happened in Derry?"
Written by Eamonn McCann in 1972, and published by the International Socialists (later SWP).
https://www.leftarchive.ie/document/319/
#Ireland #Politics #History #Derry #BloodySunday #BloodySunday51 #IrishLeftArchive
What Happened in Derry (1972) — International Socialists [UK]
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#OnThisDay 30th January 1972, Bloody Sunday in Derry -- British soldiers shot 26 people during a civil rights march in Derry, resulting in 14 deaths.
https://www.leftarchive.ie/on-this-day/01/30/#event-4800
#Ireland #Politics #History #BloodySunday #BloodySunday51 #IrishLeftArchive
On This Day, 30th January
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New document:
"19 Arrests - Campaign Will Not Be Intimidated!"
Armagh/H-Block News, Vol. 1, No. 5, 19th September 1981, from the Armagh/H-Block Action Group.
Active during the 1980/1 Hunger Strikes, the group was associated with the Communist Party of Ireland (Marxist-Leninist).
https://www.leftarchive.ie/document/6288/
#Ireland #Politics #History #HungerStrikes #CPIML #IrishLeftArchive
Armagh/H-Block News, Vol. 1, No. 5 (1981) — Armagh/H-Block Action Group
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Our index of left political organisations includes 377 parties, formations and campaign groups.
This includes Irish left orgs. from throughout the 20th Century, as well as groups from outside Ireland who have produced documents on Ireland.
Index of Organisations in the Irish Left Archive
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Our timeline of the Irish left traces the history of Irish left parties and groups throughout the 20th Century and up to the contemporary.
The timeline is always evolving -- if you are aware of a group that should be included or have any corrections, please let us know!
Timeline of the Irish Left
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"Landlord should be "tarred and feathered""
A 1975 article from The Irish People on poor housing conditions in Carlow.
The Irish People was the newspaper of Official Sinn Féin and then The Workers' Party, from the 1970s to 90s.
Full issue here: https://www.leftarchive.ie/document/2967/
#Ireland #Politics #History #Housing #OfficialSinnFéin #IrishLeftArchive
The Irish People, Vol. 3, No. 25 (1975) — Sinn Féin [Official]
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"Dig deep for the miners"
From the 1984-85 British miners' strike.
From our collection of documents from support work in Dublin for the striking miners' families. https://www.leftarchive.ie/collection/1147/
#History #Politics #MinersStrike #TradeUnion #IrishLeftArchive
Document Collection: British Miners' Strike 1984/85
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"The Path to Marriage Equality in Gay Community News"
Written on the first anniversary of the marriage equality referendum, this series of articles traces same-sex marriage through the pages of Gay Community News, starting in the early 1990s (when homosexuality was still criminalised in Ireland).
https://www.leftarchive.ie/article/1989/
#Ireland #Politics #History #LGBTQ #MarriageEquality #CivilRights #IrishLeftArchive
The Path to Marriage Equality in GCN: Part 1
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Traveller Activism in the 1980s: The Committee for the Rights of Travellers and Mincéir Misli
An article on Traveller activism in response to anti-Traveller protests and state mistreatment. The Committee ran the first Traveller candidate for the Dáil, Nan Joyce, in 1982.
https://www.leftarchive.ie/article/5703/
#Ireland #History #Politics #Travellers #IrishTravellers #IrishLeftArchive
Image: A screenshot from an RTÉ Archives video.
Traveller Activism in the 1980s: The Committee for the Rights of Travellers and Mincéir Misli
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