Irish Left Archive

#OnThisDay 8th June 1975 Irish Women United was constituted.

Their magazine, Banshee, explains their foundation:

https://www.leftarchive.ie/calendar/on-this-day/06/08/#event-5524

#IrishPolitics #IrishHistory #Feminism #IrishWomenUnited #Banshee #OTD

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

#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.

https://www.leftarchive.ie/document/2124/

#OTD #History #Politics #Activism #Protest #CND

Published #OnThisDay 5th June 2021:

"Towards a Programme for Eco-Socialism"

The founding programme of An Rabharta Glas - Green Left.

https://www.leftarchive.ie/document/4369/

#Politics #Ireland #Ecosocialism #AnRabhartaGlas #GreenLeft #Environment #OTD

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/

#OTD #IrishHistory #IrishPolitics #OfficialSinnFéin #FourthInternational #IntercontinentalPress

A demonstration was held #OnThisDay, 4th June 2005, against Israel’s occupation of Palestine during a soccer World Cup qualifying match between Ireland and Israel, which was taking place in Landsdown Road stadium.

https://www.leftarchive.ie/demonstration/6160/

#OTD #SnapshotsOfPoliticalAction #Protest #Activism #Palestine #IrishPolitics

#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.

https://www.leftarchive.ie/collection/2093/

#Ireland #History #OTD #Dublin

#OnThisDay 1st June 1984 Ronald Reagan arrived in Ireland on a state visit that was met with widespread protests.

https://www.leftarchive.ie/calendar/on-this-day/06/01/#event-6260

#IrishPolitics #IrishHistory #Reagan #OTD

#OnThisDay 31st May 2012 a referendum was held in Ireland to ratify the European Fiscal Compact.

Here's a leaflet from the United Left Alliance opposing the referendum.

https://www.leftarchive.ie/document/3197/

#IrishHistory #IrishPolitics #Referendum #EU #UnitedLeftAlliance

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/

#IrishPolitics #IrishHistory #OfficialSinnFéin #IntercontinentalPress #FourthInternational

#OnThisDay 28th May 1912, the Irish Labour Party was founded by James Connolly, James Larkin and William O'Brien as the political arm of the Irish Trades Union Congress (ITUC).

https://www.leftarchive.ie/organisation/210/

#OTD #IrishLeft #IrishHistory #Labour #ITUC #TradeUnionism

#OnThisDay 28th May 1949, the Socialist Party of Ireland was founded.

"On May 28th, 1949, a number of workers, representing Socialist Groups in Dublin and Belfast, met in Belfast and decided that the Groups should coalesce and form the Socialist Party of Ireland. That decision was subsequently ratified by the members of the Dublin and Belfast Groups; and so was born the first political party in Ireland to publicly and unequivocally declare its object to be the establishment of Socialism."

The party was associated with the Socialist Party of Great Britain (SPGB) and later became the World Socialist Party.

https://www.leftarchive.ie/calendar/on-this-day/05/28/#event-4500

#OTD #IrishHistory #IrishPolitics #SocialistPartyOfIreland #SPGB #WorldSocialism

#OnThisDay 27th May 1978, the opening address of the Socialist Labour Party policy conference, given by party Chairman, Matt Merrigan.

https://www.leftarchive.ie/document/3118/

#OTD #IrishPolitics #IrishHistory #SocialistLabourParty

#OnThisDay 26th May 1987, a referendum was held on the Single European Act. When passed, the act established the European Single Market.

https://www.leftarchive.ie/subject/2235/

#IrishPolitics #IrishHistory #EuropeanUnion #Referendum #SingleEuropeanAct

#OnThisDay 25th May 2018, the referendum to repeal the 8th Amendment to the Irish constitution was held. The vote to remove the block on provision of abortion services was passed with 66% voting yes.

https://www.leftarchive.ie/subject/3762/

#IrishPolitics #OTD #Repeal #EighthAmendment #Abortion #Referendum

#OnThisDay 24th May 2007, a General Election was held in Ireland.

https://www.leftarchive.ie/subject/3348/

#IrishPolitics #Elections #OTD

Published #OnThisDay 24th May 1967:

"New Student Movement Formed" – the first issue of The Irish Student, from the Irish Student Movement (ISM).

The ISM was linked to the Internationalists, later the Communist Party of Ireland (Marxist-Leninist), and active in the late 1960s and early 1970s in various colleges and educational establishments across Ireland.

https://www.leftarchive.ie/document/297/

#OTD #IrishLeft #IrishPolitics #IrishHistory #CPIML #Maoism #IrishStudent

#OnThisDay 19th May 1993, local elections were held in Northern Ireland.

https://www.leftarchive.ie/subject/2725/

#IrishPolitics #Election #OTD

Published #OnThisDay 19th May, 1973:

Republican News, newspaper of Sinn Féin in the North.

https://www.leftarchive.ie/document/2388/

#IrishPolitics #IrishHistory #SinnFéin #RepublicanNews #OTD

#OnThisDay 17th May 2002 a general election was held in Ireland, resulting in the Fianna Fáil and Progressive Democrat coalition government being returned.

An article by Richard Boyd Barrett in Resistance, magazine of the Socialist Workers' Party, reflects on the performance of the left.

https://www.leftarchive.ie/subject/4823/

#OTD #IrishPolitics #GeneralElection #SocialistWorkersParty #SWP