Irish Left Archive

To mark the 50th anniversary of Bloody Sunday last year, we spoke to Dr. Brian Hanley about the reaction in the Republic of Ireland to the events in Derry on 30th January 1972, when British soldiers opened fire on civil rights marchers, killing 14 and injuring several others. The reaction in the South saw walkouts and strikes, a national day of mourning, the burning of the British embassy in Dublin, and mass protests around the country.

https://www.leftarchive.ie/podcast/35-bloody-sunday-reactions-in-the-republic-of-ireland/

#Ireland #Politics #History #BloodySunday #BloodySunday51 #IrishLeftArchive #Podcast

"What Happened in Derry?"

Written by Eamonn McCann in 1972, and published by the International Socialists (later SWP).

https://www.leftarchive.ie/document/319/

#Ireland #Politics #History #Derry #BloodySunday #BloodySunday51 #IrishLeftArchive

#OnThisDay 30th January 1972, Bloody Sunday in Derry -- British soldiers shot 26 people during a civil rights march in Derry, resulting in 14 deaths.

https://www.leftarchive.ie/on-this-day/01/30/#event-4800

#Ireland #Politics #History #BloodySunday #BloodySunday51 #IrishLeftArchive

New document:

"19 Arrests - Campaign Will Not Be Intimidated!"

Armagh/H-Block News, Vol. 1, No. 5, 19th September 1981, from the Armagh/H-Block Action Group.

Active during the 1980/1 Hunger Strikes, the group was associated with the Communist Party of Ireland (Marxist-Leninist).

https://www.leftarchive.ie/document/6288/

#Ireland #Politics #History #HungerStrikes #CPIML #IrishLeftArchive

Our index of left political organisations includes 377 parties, formations and campaign groups.

This includes Irish left orgs. from throughout the 20th Century, as well as groups from outside Ireland who have produced documents on Ireland.

https://www.leftarchive.ie/browse/organisations/

#Ireland #Politics #Left #History #IrishLeftArchive

Our timeline of the Irish left traces the history of Irish left parties and groups throughout the 20th Century and up to the contemporary.

The timeline is always evolving -- if you are aware of a group that should be included or have any corrections, please let us know!

https://www.leftarchive.ie/page/timeline-of-the-irish-left/

#Ireland #Politics #History #IrishLeftArchive

"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

A poster from a rally in May 2022 opposing the private ownership of the National Maternity Hospital.

The poster uses an image originally painted by Nina Vatolina for a 1940s anti-fascist poster.

From a collection of leaflets from that rally put together by @electionlit@mastodon.online as part of the Snapshots of Political Action project, which you can find at the link below.

https://www.leftarchive.ie/demonstration/6070/

#Ireland #Politics #NMH #SnapshotsOfPoliticalAction

"Dig deep for the miners"

From the 1984-85 British miners' strike.

From our collection of documents from support work in Dublin for the striking miners' families. https://www.leftarchive.ie/collection/1147/

#History #Politics #MinersStrike #TradeUnion #IrishLeftArchive

"The Path to Marriage Equality in Gay Community News"

Written on the first anniversary of the marriage equality referendum, this series of articles traces same-sex marriage through the pages of Gay Community News, starting in the early 1990s (when homosexuality was still criminalised in Ireland).

https://www.leftarchive.ie/article/1989/

#Ireland #Politics #History #LGBTQ #MarriageEquality #CivilRights #IrishLeftArchive

Traveller Activism in the 1980s: The Committee for the Rights of Travellers and Mincéir Misli

An article on Traveller activism in response to anti-Traveller protests and state mistreatment. The Committee ran the first Traveller candidate for the Dáil, Nan Joyce, in 1982.

https://www.leftarchive.ie/article/5703/

#Ireland #History #Politics #Travellers #IrishTravellers #IrishLeftArchive

Image: A screenshot from an RTÉ Archives video.

Material from Occupy Dame Street in 2011.

From a march in support of the occupation, which took place on the 22nd of October 2011 from the Garden of Remembrance to Dame Street.

https://www.leftarchive.ie/demonstration/6140/

#Ireland #History #Politics #Occupy #SnapshotsOfPoliticalAction

From Allan Armstrong, on the @rcfscotland@mastodon.scot website, an article looking at the language issue across these islands, and connections between Irish, Gaelic, Welsh, and Scots language struggles.

https://republicancommunist.org/blog/2022/12/26/the-language-struggle-and-the-challenge-to-the-uk-state/

#Politics #Language #Gaeilge #Gaelic #Gàidhlig #Welsh #Cymraeg #Scots #RepublicanSocialistForum

Published #OnThisDay 23rd January 1976:

The Bottom Dog, The working class paper of North Munster.

https://www.leftarchive.ie/document/530/

#Ireland #Politics #History #TheBottomDog #IrishLeftArchive

#OnThisDay 23rd January 1973:

"Giving Irish Trotskyism a Bad Name"

A letter from the Belfast branch of the Revolutionary Marxist Group to the rest of the organisation over a proposal to change the name from ‘Revolutionary’ to ‘Republican Marxist Group’.

https://www.leftarchive.ie/document/3161/

#Ireland #Politics #History #RevolutionaryMarxistGroup #Trotskyism #IrishLeftArchive

3/3 Britain Out of Ireland!

A sticker from Éirígí, circa 2010.

https://www.leftarchive.ie/document/6278/

#Ireland #Politics #Éirígí #IrishLeftArchive

2/3 Ní Saoirse go Saoirse na mBan!

A sticker from Éirígí's 2018 abortion rights campaign during the referendum to repeal the eight amendment.

https://www.leftarchive.ie/document/6279/

#Ireland #Politics #AbortionRights #RepealTheEighth #Éirígí #IrishLeftArchive

New stickers from Éirígí:

1/3 #TrackTheVultures, 2021. Part of Éirígí's housing campaign highlighting corporate ownership of housing.

https://www.leftarchive.ie/document/6280/

#Ireland #Politics #Éirígí #IrishLeftArchive

Published #OnThisDay 22nd January 1973:

"Official Republicans Meet in Dublin: A Step Forward for the Irish Vanguard"

Gerry Foley on the Official Republican Convention in 1972. From Intercontinental Press, the magazine of the Fourth International.

https://www.leftarchive.ie/document/3237/

#Ireland #Politics #History #FourthInternational #IntercontinentalPress #IrishLeftArchive

Published #OnThisDay 21st January 1991:

"Towards a Peaceful Ireland", from Republican Sinn Féin.

https://www.leftarchive.ie/document/2423/

#Ireland #Politics #History #RepublicanSinnFéin #IrishLeftArchive