Irish Left Archive

#OnThisDay, 24th November 1995, the referendum to remove the prohibition of divorce in Ireland was narrowly won with 50.28% of the vote.

https://www.leftarchive.ie/subject/3888/

#IrishPolitics #IrishHistory #Referendum #Divorce

New document:

"Tomás Mac Giolla: Republican, Socialist, Internationalist"

Produced by the Workers' Party after former party President Mac Giolla's death in 2010.

https://www.leftarchive.ie/document/6875/

#IrishHistory #IrishPolitics #WorkersParty #TomásMacGiolla

New document:

Hands Off Ireland!

Issue number three of the publication produced by the Revolutionary Communist Group in the UK in the 1970s.

https://www.leftarchive.ie/document/6866/

#IrishPolitics #IrishHistory #RCG #HandsOffIreland

Published #OnThisDay 1st December 1976:

"Organise to defeat British imperialist aggression and plunder Organise to defeat the Irish monopoly capitalists north and south"

Red Patriot, Newsweekly of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Ireland (Marxist-Leninist)

https://www.leftarchive.ie/document/85/

#IrishHistory #CPIML #Maoism #IrishPolitics

New document:

Working Class Action Newsletter, October 2002 on the second Nice Treaty referendum.

https://www.leftarchive.ie/document/6752/

#IrishHistory #IrishPolitics #WorkingClassAction #Nice #Referendum

#OnThisDay 24th November 1995:

A referendum was passed to remove the prohibition on divorce from the Irish constitution.

https://www.leftarchive.ie/subject/3888/

#Referendums #IrishHistory #OTD

#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

#OnThisDay 2nd November 1986, Republican Sinn Féin were formed in a split over abstention from Leinster House.

https://www.leftarchive.ie/calendar/on-this-day/11/02/#event-5541

#OTD #IrishHistory #Republicanism #RepublicanSinnFéin

Published #OnThisDay 20th October 1979:

An Phoblacht Republican News, newspaper of Sinn Féin.

https://www.leftarchive.ie/document/6227/

#SinnFéin #AnPhoblacht #RepublicanNews #IrishHistory #IrishPolitics #OTD

#OnThisDay 16th October 1968, a referendum to remove proportional representation in favour of majoritarianism was held in the Republic of Ireland.

The referendum was rejected by 60% of voters.

Below is a poster from the Labour party from the campaign.

#OTD #Referendum #Labour #IrishHistory #IrishPolitics

#OnThisDay 14th of October 1967:

Labour party leader Brendan Corish delivered his "New Republic" speech, famously opening with “the seventies will be Socialist”.

https://www.leftarchive.ie/calendar/on-this-day/10/14/#event-5538

#OTD #Labour #Socialism #IrishHistory #IrishPolitics

#OnThisDay 9th of October 1968, People’s Democracy was formed at a meeting in Queen’s University Belfast.

https://www.leftarchive.ie/calendar/on-this-day/10/09/#event-5709

#OTD #IrishPolitics #IrishHistory #PeoplesDemocracy

New document:

Poster from Éirígí in 2019 reproducing the Democratic Programme of the First Dáil Éireann.

https://www.leftarchive.ie/document/6663/

#FirstDáil #Éirígí #IrishHistory #IrishPolitics

"The Two Irelands"

By Andrew Boyd, 1968, published by the Fabian Society.

https://www.leftarchive.ie/document/4902/

#IrishHistory #IrishPolitics #FabianSociety

#OnThisDay 26th September 1931, the founding conference of Saor Éire began. The "organisation of workers and working farmers" was established by the left-leaning and communist wing of the IRA.

https://www.leftarchive.ie/calendar/on-this-day/09/26/#event-6290

#OTD #IrishHistory #IrishPolitics #SaorÉire

New document:

Left Republican Review, Sept/Oct 2000, from Sinn Féin.

https://www.leftarchive.ie/document/6641/

#IrishPolitics #IrishHistory #LeftRepublicanReview #SinnFéin

The first issue of Congress '86, magazine of the League of Communist Republicans (LCR).

The LCR, formed mostly by republican prisoners in the H-Blocks, split from the Provisional IRA and Sinn Féin in 1986.

https://www.leftarchive.ie/document/2431/

#IrishHistory #IrishPolitics #LeagueOfCommunistRepublicans #Congress86 #MarxismLeninism

New document:

The Marxism of James Connolly, from March 1968.

Irish Communist Organisation Pamphlets No. 15.

https://www.leftarchive.ie/document/6627/

#IrishHistory #IrishPolitics #IrishCommunistOrganisation #Communism #JamesConnolly

Published #OnThisDay 6th September 1974:

"British Spies Still at Work" "Cork Dockers Consider Action against Beef Fleet"

The Irish People, from Official Sinn Féin.

https://www.leftarchive.ie/document/276/

#OTD #IrishHistory #IrishPolitics #OfficialSinnFéin #TheIrishPeople

Published #OnThisDay 5th September 1984:

Voice of Revolution, Communist Party of Ireland (Marxist-Leninist)

https://www.leftarchive.ie/document/517/

#OTD #IrishPolitics #IrishHistory #CPIML #VoiceOfRevolution #Maoism