#irish left

[queen-mabs-revenge]

Timeline of the Irish Left

A timeline of the development of left wing political groups and parties in Ireland from 1900 to the present, from the Irish Left Archive.

....holy shit

[galatur]

[bedlamireland]

Cork Republican Larry White, killed in 1975 by the Official IRA during a feud with the Saor Eire organization and, below, his funeral. A number of political activists who belonged to Official Sinn Fein at the time of White's murder have gone onto influential positions in the Irish Labour Party, including Tanaiste Eamon Gilmore and Pat Rabbitte TD, Minister for Communications, Energy, and Natural Resources. Also worth mentioning is Kathleen Lynch TD, Minister for Disability, Equality, and Mental Health, who followed Gilmore and Rabbitte (and the now-retired Proinsias De Rossa, a former Irish Republican Army Volunteer) from the Workers Party to the Democratic Left and then to the leadership of the Labour Party. Lynch's husband, Bernard, was convicted of White's murder, but the conviction was later overturned on a technicality. In 2011, Kathleen appointed her husband to the role of 'special advisor,' a taxpayer-funded position.

[bedlamireland]

Ireland has never had a particularly strong left, beyond the left of the republican movement and, I suppose, the Labour Party, although that body's left wing credentials are certainly up for debate. The CPI has been marginal even in the marginalized context of Irish left politics.