#OnThisDay 1st January 1974: The Communist Organisation in the British Isles was formed in a split from the British and Irish Communist Organisation.

https://www.leftarchive.ie/on-this-day/01/01/#event-4510

#Ireland #Politics #History #Communism #IrishLeftArchive

#OnThisDay 18th December 1981, the Dublin Unemployed Action Group (DUAG) held their second “Rock ‘N’ Dole” gig, with Poison Girls and Xn Trix playing.

https://www.leftarchive.ie/on-this-day/12/18/#event-5755

#Ireland #History #Politics #IrishLeftArchive

From 1981, a special issue of Workers Republic after the death of Bobby Sands.

Published by the League for a Workers' Republic, a Trotskyist organisation active from 1968 until the late 80s.

https://www.leftarchive.ie/document/467/

#Ireland #Politics #Republicanism #HungerStrikes #Trotskyism #IrishLeftArchive

One of the more unusual pieces of political ephemera collected by @electionlit in the #SnapshotsOfPoliticalAction collection:

A face mask of Leo Varadkar, worn by housing protesters during a building occupation in Summerhill, Dublin, in 2018.

https://www.leftarchive.ie/document/6130/

#Ireland #Politics

If you're attending any demonstrations around Ireland, please consider hanging on to any leaflets or political material you get for inclusion in #SnapshotsOfPoliticalAction, a collection of material from political protests in Ireland.

Get in touch with @electionlit or us if you pick anything up!

#Ireland #Protest #Politics

From 1972, Fownes Street Journal, No. 2

From the "Women’s Liberation Movement" — a group established after the break-up of the "Irish Women’s Liberation Movement" which had been extant in the early 1970s for a number of years.

https://www.leftarchive.ie/document/2461/

#Ireland #Politics #Feminism #IrishLeft

Updated:

New posters from the National Maternity Hospital rally in May 2022 added.

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

#OTD 24th November 1995, the referendum on divorce in Ireland was passed by a narrow margin.

https://www.leftarchive.ie/subject/3888/

#Ireland #Politics #History #Referendum #Divorce #Secularism #CatholicChurch

#OTD 24th November 1982, Nan Joyce became the first Irish Traveller to stand in a general election.

Joyce was part of the Committee for the Rights of Travellers.

https://www.leftarchive.ie/on-this-day/#event-5712

#Ireland #Politics #IrishTravellers #Travellers #History