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Tuesday, Feb 7th 2012


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Peter Daly Society, Wexford : memorial unveiling, Enniscorthy, Saturday 3 September @ 6pm

The recently formed Peter Daly Society Wexford will unveil a memorial stone to the Socialist Republican Peter Daly in Monageer (Enniscorthy) Co. Wexford on Saturday the 3rd of September at 6.00 pm
Peter Daly fought and died with the Irish contingent of the International Brigade in the war against fascism in Spain in September 1937. [...]

BOOK LAUNCH: The Provisional IRA - From Insurrection to Parliament - Connolly Books, 10 August @ 5.30pm

BOOK LAUNCH
The Provisional IRA - From Insurrection to Parliament:
by Tommy Mc Kearney
Published by: Pluto Press London
Wednesday 10th August
5-30 - 6-30pm
Connolly Books
43 East Essex St,
Temple Bar,
Dublin 2:
All welcome

SEAN GARLAND, PRESIDENT, WORKERS’ PARTY : TENEMENT LIFE IN THE 1930S

Short clip from an interview I recorded with Sean Garland as part of the Irish Left Oral History Archive.
Sean is currently fighting extradition to the United States. The following is taken from a letter of support which is signed by Jack O’Connor, General President, SIPTU; Jimmy Kelly, Regional Secretary, UNITE; and Eamon Devoy, General [...]

Paddy Moran Commemoration Programme - 8 to 14 March 2011

The 90th anniversary of the execution of Patrick Moran, one of ten Volunteers executed in Mountjoy Prison during the War of Independence, is being marked by a series of events in Dun Laoghaire from Tuesday, March 8th to Monday March 14th, 2011.
Events

Life Imitates Art – Part 2

This is the second part of a two-part article called Life Imitates Art. The first part can be found here. For more information on the devastating legacy of Agent Orange in Viêt Nam, visit www.lenaldis.co.uk
The metamorphic transformations inflicted on their human victims by Ovid’s capricious gods have serious or even fatal consequences. When Jove’s wife [...]

SHORT HISTORY OF THE IRISH INTERNATIONALISTS / COMMUNIST PARTY OF IRELAND (MARXIST-LENINIST), PART ONE: 1965-1970

When The Internationalists were first set up in Trinity College Dublin in November 1965, it was not as a fully-formed Marxist-Leninist party, but ‘as an exercise in better staff-student relations.’(1) Prominent among the initial group was Hardial Bains, a lecturer in bacteriology who was originally from India, but who had left for Canada in 1959 [...]

SAM NOLAN AND THE 1979 TAX MARCHES

Below is a clip from an interview with Sam Nolan of the Dublin Council of Trade Unions, where Sam discusses the 1979 tax marches. It’s taken from a series of interviews which have been conducted with Sam, and which chart his life as a political and trade union activist, going as far back as the [...]

Beyond the Classroom - The Communities -Ep2: Tallaght

As part of the ongoing relationship with Aontas. It was suggested in mid 2008 that DCTV and the Aontas – Community Education Network would be a good fit to explore a production project. This series, supported by the Broadcasting Authority of Ireland sound and vision scheme is the most visible result of that partnership [...]

The Socialist Party of Ireland 1971 - 1982

Pdf of SPI 1973 Report of the 1st national congress here: SPI73REPORT
As a means of opening the discussion on the SPI the accompanying document was donated by Mark P (for which many thanks and many thanks also to the SP for allowing us access to some documents from their archive) and seems entirely suitable for [...]

Joe Deasy: Irish Marxist

The following clip is from an interview with Joe Deasy, who was born in 1922 and who met and worked with Jim Larkin Snr in the 1940s. Both were Labour councillors on Dublin Corporation. Joe would later leave the Labour party and join the Irish Workers League, which was a communist organisation, the antecedent to [...]

 
 Joe Deasy on the Ballyfermot Co-op [13:39m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

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Sins of the Father

Sins of the Father:

Tracing the Decisions

That Shaped the Irish Economy,

by Conor McCabe

from The History Press

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