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New podcast episode, featuring politically influential books, films, music, events and media from several of our guests throughout the year.
Happy new year! Thanks to everyone who has contributed to the Irish Left Archive during 2023 by donating documents, offering feedback and appearing on (and listening to!) the podcast!
https://podcast.leftarchive.ie/@ILAPodcast/episodes/politics-and-cultural-influence
Published #OnThisDay 26th April 1994:
The Downing Street Declaration: New Unionism and the Communities of Resistance
From the Republican Worker Tendency.
The Downing Street Declaration: New Unionism and the Communities of Resistance (1994) â Republican Worker Tendency
Irish Left Archive
Taken from Women's View, No. 9, published by The Workers' Party. You can read the article on our website: https://www.leftarchive.ie/document/view/2575/?page=2
View Document: Women's View, No. 9 - The Workers' Party
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New document: OrĂĄid an UachtarĂĄin Presidential Address, TomĂĄs Mac Giolla TD, Ărd Fheis Annual Conference, 1986, The Workers Party
https://www.leftarchive.ie/document/6399/
#IrishLeftArchive #TheWorkersParty #TomĂĄsMacGiolla #IrishPolitics #IrishHistory
OrĂĄid an UachtarĂĄin Presidential Address, TomĂĄs Mac Giolla TD, Ărd Fheis Annual Conference, 1986 (1986) â The Workers' Party
Irish Left Archive
From the Northern Ireland Civil Rights Association in 1975: Bill of Rights (Northern Ireland) Act 1975, presented to the people of N. Ireland by N.I.C.R.A.
https://www.leftarchive.ie/document/4589/
#IrishLeftArchive #BillOfRights #NICRA #CivilRights #IrishPolitics #IrishHistory
Bill of Rights (Northern Ireland) Act 1975 (1975) â Northern Ireland Civil Rights Association
Irish Left Archive
The article in which this cartoon appears can be read in United Irishman, Vol. 33, No. 7 on our website: https://www.leftarchive.ie/document/view/1736/?page=14
View Document: United Irishman, Vol. 33, No. 7 - Sinn FĂ©in [Official]
Irish Left Archive
A cartoon from United Irishman in 1975 on American adoptions of Vietnamese children.
United Irishman was the newspaper of Official Sinn FĂ©in.
#IrishLeftArchive #UnitedIrishman #OfficialSinnFĂ©in #Vietnam
Published #OnThisDay 13th April 1973, a "Special Election Bulletin" from the Democratic Student Front.
The group was formed by the Communist Party of Ireland (Marxist-Leninist) in Trinity College Dublin to contest the student representative council elections.
https://www.leftarchive.ie/document/457/
#IrishLeftArchive #OTD #DemocraticStudentFront #CPIML #Maoism
Special Election Bulletin, 13th April 1973 (1973) â Democratic Student Front
Irish Left Archive
Updates to our bibliography of Irish Left periodicals: https://cedarlounge.wordpress.com/2023/04/10/updated-bibliography-of-irish-left-periodicals/
#IrishLeftArchive #Mastodaoine #IrishLeft #IrishPolitics #Histodon
Updated Bibliography of Irish Left Periodicals
The Cedar Lounge Revolution
New document:
The Socialist, No. 137, 26 November 1999. Newspaper of the Socialist Party (England & Wales).
The Socialist, No. 137 (1999) â Socialist Party [England & Wales]
Irish Left Archive
From 1971, the first issue of Official Sinn FĂ©in's theoretical journal, Teoric.
Teoiric, No. 1 (1971) â Sinn FĂ©in [Official]
Irish Left Archive
The article comes from The United Irishman, Vol. 23, No. 7, which can be viewed in full on our website: https://www.leftarchive.ie/document/1608/
The United Irishman, Vol. 23, No. 7 (1969) â Sinn FĂ©in [Pre 1970]
Irish Left Archive
From 1969, an article on opposition to the appointment of Charles as Prince of Wales, and the ongoing trial of nine members of the Free Wales Army.
From United Irishman, newspaper of Sinn FĂ©in.
#IrishLeftArchive #FreeWalesArmy #Cymru #Wales #PrinceOfWales
![Scanned newspaper article headlined "Wales Defiled!", with a caricature image of Charles, and reading:
On July 1 as we go to press a representative of the English Crown, the most vicious institution of murder the world has ever known, was installed as "prince" of Wales.
Surrounded by the largest force of police and troops ever mounted in peacetime the English âroyalsâ imposed themselves on the people of Wales. The âroyalâ occasion did not pass without protest however: bombs exploded in Cardiff, the Welsh Capital, and in Abergele, forty miles from Caernarvon, two men were killed while placing explosives in a government office.
At the same time the marathon trial of members of the Free Wales Army was coming to an end and the verdicts were due to be announced on July 1. Referring to the trial, our Welsh correspondent writes:
Now as the Free Wales Army trial drags to its seemingly interminable close the moment of decision â the âcrunchâ â arrives. Not only for those patriots in the dock at Swansea. The hour of decision has arrived for the whole movement towards devolution of Government away from the Whitehall tyrannies of the Harold Wilson regime. Sadly, most sadly, one or two signs of the cracking of resolve are to be seen amongst those who took upon themselves the heavy responsibility of putting themselves forward as martyrs in the cause of the struggle to save the lifeblood of the Welsh nation.
The inspiration for the Welsh militant movement sprang â as it was bound to do â from the great examples of the Irish patriots of the time of Irelandâs agony.
But from the example of the martyrs for Irish independence those who are now in doubt â and who can blame them after the ordeal they have undergone in English prisons over the past months? â they, these new martyrs in the cause of Wales, must draw fresh strength.
They must stand firm. One sign of weakness, one indication that one or two may be tempted, fatally, to âcrawl out from underâ the weight of their responsibility â a responsibility to the generations of new Welshmen and women in the years to come â and the very existence of Wales, as a Nation again, will be equally fatally threatened.
Stand firm, the new martyrs of Wales.
Remember the examples of Pearse, of Connolly, of Ap Griffith, the Welshman him self who inspired in those days of the other struggles for the freedom of Ireland. Stand firm. For the dignity of the Welsh nation.
Only stand fearless before the threats of the London Government hirelings, the Quisling traitors of Wales, who are even now drawing their wages in Saxon gold as drovers of the Welsh cattle out of Wales and to the "Saisâ New Towns, only stand firm now all can be won.
Only stand firm now and as Ireland survived its testing hour, so can Wales today.
A heavy responsibility rests on the shoulders of the men on trial. They must prove themselves worthy of it.
Any sign of weakness, any sign of fear, and the whole movement towards the rennaissance [sic] of the Welsh spirit will be put back a hundred years.
The men on trial at the Inquisition of Swansea have the ability to write themselves into a golden page of Welsh history. Stand firm Welshmen. The heart and soul of a new Wales is with you. The new martyrs of Wales have already been likened to âthe tip of the spearâ â this one action, this one public martyrdom, and the modern âSiege of The Post Office" in open court can win Wales its freedom after 500 years of insidious and open oppression.
Stand firm and all can be won.
Stand firm for Wales!](https://posts.leftarchive.ie/attachments/thumbnails/b6d1adb099ec226dea248ad681839d48208ef6ddc2e03364aa530e855843429b/UI-Wales-defiled.jpeg)
New document: People's Voice, No. 6.
Magazine of Saor Ăire, 1969.
Note, this is the Cork-based organisation, not to be confused with the Saor Ăire Action Group.
https://www.leftarchive.ie/document/6371/
#IrishLeftArchive #IrishHistory #IrishPolitics #SaorĂire #PeoplesVoice
People's Voice, No. 6 (1969) â Saor Ăire [Cork]
Irish Left Archive
Published #OnThisDay 1st April 1972:
"Military Dictatorship in Northern Ireland"
Freedom, anarchist weekly from Freedom Press.
Freedom, Vol. 33, No. 14 (1972) â Freedom Press
Irish Left Archive
#OnThisDay 31st March 1976, the Sallins Train robbery occurred.
Three members of the IRSP were charged with the robbery and convicted despite evidence of torture after arrest. A significant campaign for the release of Nicky Kelly was organised. Kelly was ultimately released, and later received a presidential pardon and compensation.
Here are documents from the campaign in our collection: https://www.leftarchive.ie/subject/2674/
#OTD #IrishLeftArchive #IrishPolitics #IrishHistory #SallinsTrainRobbery #IRSP #NickyKelly
Event - Sallins Train robbery
Irish Left Archive
The other Saor Ăire was a Maoist-influenced group in Cork, and a successor to the Irish Revolutionary Forces. It published a magazine called People's Voice, which can be read in the archive: https://www.leftarchive.ie/publication/131/
Associated with Jim Lane, members went on to join the Irish Communist Organisation (ICO), though later left to form the Cork Communist Organisation after the ICO moved to the "two nations" theory.
#IrishLeftArchive #SaorĂire #IrishRevolutionaryForces #IrishCommunistOrganisation #CorkCommunistOrganisation
People's Voice
Irish Left Archive
Two unconnected later groups, active in the late 1960s and early 70s, also had the name Saor Ăire.
One was a Republican "urban guerilla" group formed by former IRA members and Trotskyists, also known as the Saor Ăire Action Group. It was involved in a number of bank robberies to fund arms purchases in the late 60s. By 1975 it had dissolved.
Their manifesto, reportedly printed by Peter Graham using the presses of Red Mole in London (the publication of the International Marxist Group), is available in the archive here: https://www.leftarchive.ie/document/1712/
#SaorĂire #RedMole #InternationalMarxistGroup #IMG #IrishLeftArchive
Saor Ăire Manifesto (1971) â Saor Ăire [1967]
Irish Left Archive
The Draft Constitution and Rules of Saor Ăire: https://www.leftarchive.ie/document/6252/
Saor Ăire was a short-lived left Republican and communist organisation founded by members of the IRA in 1931. Notable among its founders were Peadar OâDonnell, Frank Ryan and George Gilmore.
It brought together members of the Revolutionary Workersâ Groups (RWG), which was chiefly Dublin-based, and the Irish Working Farmersâ Congress (IWFC), which had been established by OâDonnell in 1930 and was associated with Krestintern, the Peasants International.
#IrishLeftArchive #SaorĂire #IrishWorkingFarmersCongress #RevolutionaryWorkersGroups
Saor Ăire: Draft Constitution and Rules (1931) â Saor Ăire [1931]
Irish Left Archive
Published #OnThisDay 29th March 1974:
"Shops Stewards Committee: 'Why We Left It': B&ICO Shop Stewards"
"Revivalism or Reform for the Gaeltacht?"
Comment, fortnightly paper of the British and Irish Communist Organisation (BICO).
https://www.leftarchive.ie/document/2322/
#OTD #IrishLeftArchive #BICO #Comment #BritishAndIrishCommunistOrganisation #Gaeltacht
Comment, Vol. 3, No. 4 (1974) â British and Irish Communist Organisation
Irish Left Archive