Irish Left Archive

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/

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Published #OnThisDay, 5th September 1975:

The Irish People, from Official Sinn Féin.

https://www.leftarchive.ie/document/2967/

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Published #OnThisDay 22nd August 1975:

The Irish People, from Official Sinn Féin.

https://www.leftarchive.ie/document/2852/

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Published #OnThisDay 14th August 1971:

Drithleog – Nuachtlitir, Comhairle Ceantair Átha Cliath, Sinn Féin

A newsletter from the Dublin region of Official Sinn Féin.

https://www.leftarchive.ie/document/3992/

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Published #OnThisDay 8th August 1972:

Nuacht Náisiúnta, from Official Sinn Féin.

https://www.leftarchive.ie/document/275/

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Published #OnThisDay 21st July 1975:

"The Need to End the Feud Between 'Officials' and IRSP", An Interview with Seamus Costello.

By Gerry Foley in Intercontinental Press, magazine of the Fourth International.

https://www.leftarchive.ie/document/563/

#OTD #IntercontinentalPress #FourthInternational #USFI #IRSP #OfficialSinnFéin #SeamusCostello

Published #OnThisDay 4th June 1973:

"Performing Artists on a Flying Trapeze"

Gerry Foley on how Official Sinn Féin can build a "revolutionary party of the Irish people", from Intercontinental Press, magazine of the Fourth International (USFI).

https://www.leftarchive.ie/document/1489/

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Published #OnThisDay 28th May, 1973:

"Revolutionary Nationalism, Class Struggle, and Problems of Party Building in Ireland"

An article by Gerry Foley on Official Sinn Féin, from Intercontinental Press, the magazine of the Fourth International.

https://www.leftarchive.ie/document/1488/

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A cartoon from United Irishman in 1975 on American adoptions of Vietnamese children.

United Irishman was the newspaper of Official Sinn Féin.

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From 1971, the first issue of Official Sinn Féin's theoretical journal, Teoric.

https://www.leftarchive.ie/document/2109/

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#OnThisDay 29th March 1975, The Non-Stop Connolly Show, a 24-hour play dramatising the life of James Connolly by Margaretta D’Arcy and John Arden, was first performed on Saturday 29th March 1975. The play was in part supported by Official Sinn Féin.

https://www.leftarchive.ie/on-this-day/03/29/#event-5522

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Published #OnThisDay 3rd March 1975:

"'Officials' Turn Against Their Own Past"

By Gerry Foley, from Intercontinental Press, magazine of the Fourth International.

https://www.leftarchive.ie/document/562/

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"Ireland: Background to What Is Happening To-Day"

From Official Sinn Féin, an overview of the situation in Ireland and position of the Republican movement.

https://www.leftarchive.ie/document/4795/

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Published #OnThisDay 24th February 1975:

"Officials' Split over Stalinist Power Play"

By Gerry Foley, for Intercontinental Press, magazine of the Fourth International.

https://www.leftarchive.ie/document/561/

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https://podcast.leftarchive.ie/@ILAPodcast/episodes/padraig-mannion-official-sinn-fein-and-the-workers-party

"No Pasaran!"

The Story of the Irish Volunteers who served with the International Brigades in defending the Spanish Republic against International Fascism 1936-1938.

Published by Official Sinn Féin, 1975.

https://www.leftarchive.ie/document/4469/

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Published #OnThisDay 5th February, 1973:

"Sinn Féin Debates Changes: An Irish Mass Revolutionary Party?"

Gerry Foley in the Fourth International magazine, Intercontinental Press, on Official Sinn Féin.

https://www.leftarchive.ie/document/3177/

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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

We returned in November with an interview with Pádraig Mannion, who has been a member of Official Sinn Féin and then The Workers' Party since the 1970s. We discussed his politicisation as a student, and the many activist and electoral campaigns he has been involved in, as well as the politics and development of the Workers' Party.

https://www.leftarchive.ie/podcast/41-padraig-mannion-official-sinn-fein-and-the-workers/

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