Irish Left Archive

"Why was Garland Shot?"

The Irish People, newspaper of Official Sinn Féin, #OnThisDay, 7th March 1975.

Seán Garland was shot in an INLA assassination attempt. The INLA had split from the Official IRA months previously, resulting in a violent feud.

https://www.leftarchive.ie/document/6906/

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New document:

The Irish People, Vol. 1, No. 2

The second issue of the newspaper from Official Sinn Féin and later The Workers' Party.

https://www.leftarchive.ie/document/7495/

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#OnThisDay, the 8th of December 1974, the Irish Republican Socialist Party (IRSP) was formed at a meeting in Dublin by former members of Official Sinn Féin.

https://www.leftarchive.ie/calendar/on-this-day/12/08/#event-5521

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New document:

United Irishman, Vol. 34, No. 2

From Official Sinn Féin, February 1976.

https://www.leftarchive.ie/document/7413/

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New document:

The United Irishman, March 1971.

Newspaper of Official Sinn Féin.

https://www.leftarchive.ie/document/7400/

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New document:

The Irish People, 13th July 1973.

Newspaper of Official Sinn Féin and later the Workers' Party.

https://www.leftarchive.ie/document/7368/

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Published #OnThisDay, 7th March 1975:

"Why Was Garland Shot?"

The Irish People, newspaper of Official Sinn Féin on the then recent shooting of Seán Garland.

https://www.leftarchive.ie/document/6906/

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New document:

The United Irishman, Eanair (January) 1971.

The United Irishman was the newspaper of Sinn Féin from 1948, and continued by Official Sinn Féin after the 1969 split.

https://www.leftarchive.ie/document/6916/

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New document:

"Why was Garland shot?"

The Irish People, March 7, 1975, in the aftermath of the shooting of Seán Garland.

https://www.leftarchive.ie/document/6906/

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New document:

The Making Of The Irish Revolution: A Short Analysis

By Tomás MacGiolla, circa 1975. Published by Official Sinn Féin as part of their Repsol Pamphlets series.

https://www.leftarchive.ie/document/6853/

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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/

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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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