A Rather Lengthy and verbose ‘Sorry I missed you’ card from Nessa Childers when running for the Green Party in Blackrock in the 2004 Local Elections. Nessa Childers was elected.
She is the daughter of former president of Ireland Erskine Childers. She resigned her council seat in August 2008 citing pressure of work as a psychoanalyst as her reason.
Less than a year later she surfaced as the Labour European Parliament candidate for the East constituency. She was elected and is now a Labour MEP.
From the 1999 Local Elections in the Ballybrack Ward , Green Party candidate Catherine Sweeney. She polled 853 votes and just missed out on the last seat.
From the 1997 General Election in Dublin South, Green Party candidate Gerry Boland. Gerry Boland polled a respectable 3,539 votes but failed to win a seat.
Boland is an author and prominent in the Vegan and Animal rights movement. He now lives in Roscommon and is involved in a group called ‘Animals in Crisis’.
From the 1991 Local Elections, Green Party candidate Claire Wheeler running in the Pembroke Ward. Claire Wheeler polled 1,060 votes and was elected.
She was joined on Dublin City Council by Green Councillors, John Gormley, Ciaran Cuffe and Siadbh O’Neill.
From the 2004 Local Elections Green Party Candidate Tony McDermott who was elected in the Terenure Rathfarnham ward.
Tony McDermott also ran in the 2007 General Election in Dublin South Central polling well but not enough to win a seat.
He failed to hold his Council seat in 2009.
From the 1987 General Election in Dublin South the Green candidate Roger Garland. Garland later became a Ireland’s first Green TD in the 1989 General Election, before losing his seat in 1992.
He had also stood in the Ecology party’s initial electoral outing in November 1982 getting 950 votes in Dublin South.
In 1987 the Green Alliance policies were very much left of centre. There was no mention of such thing as Global Warming or depleting ozone layers. From memory of the times Acid Rain was what we were really scared of. The European Greens got a far bigger mention then in Green Literature, than they do now.
Reposting this leaflet as earlier Garland post had leaflets from 2 different elections.
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From the 1991 Local Elections in Kildare, Green Party candidate Catherine Power. She wasn’t elected.
A Green Councillor isn’t in to horse-trading she writes.
A flyer from the Cork South Central Green Party candidate,the now Senator, Dan Boyle from the 1992 General Election.
It was his first General election and he polled 1,166 votes.
A few nice lines about building houses rather than motorways, fundamental changes in our taxation system and looking after the young and the elderly.
From the 2007 General Election in Dublin South, Green Party Minister Eamon Ryan. It has a little profile of himself. A list of his achievements over the previous five years, which include being ‘Magill TD of the year 2007’, the creation of ‘No Logo Day’ and a Green Energy Fair in Lepardstown Racecourse.
Then on the reverse “Vote Eamon Ryan No. 1 so that in Government he can …..”
‘Provide better, more affordable housing’ , ‘Invest in faster, safer and cleaner public transport’ , ‘Support parents with young children’, ‘Deliver a proper health care system’ and ‘Develop a new Green economy’.
In 1981 Christopher Fettes wrote a letter (below) to the Irish Times enquiring if anyone was interested in setting up an Irish Ecology Party. He got around 80 responses. In turn this led to a meeting of all those interested. This is the poster Advertising the first meeting.
The Ecology Party of Ireland did not field any candidates in the February 1982 election, but did field seven candidates
in the November 1982 Election.(Seven candidates were needed to get coverage on RTE). These Seven were Roger Garland in Dublin South (950 votes) ,Maire Mullarney in Dublin South East (312), Aidan Meagher (188) in Dublin North West, Liam DeSuin (463) in Wicklow, Richard Power in Limerick East (177), Owen Casey (1307) Cork South Central and Elizabeth Ryder (319) in Cork South West.
Many members were unhappy with the name of the new Party and with Greens such as Petra Kelly in Germany household names the name of the Party was changed. On April the 12th 1984 ‘The Green Alliance/ An Comhaontas Glas’ formally applied to be registered as a political Party.
Many thanks to the donor.
A leaflet sent out by the now Senator Niall Ó Brolcháin in Galway West. I’m not sure exactly when but I suspect it was prior to the 2002 General Election.
Issues covered include Solving the Waste Crisis, Organic Farming, Green Spaces, Balanced regional development and of course Water Quality.
From the 1985 local elections, the Green Party candidate for the Pembroke Ward, Enid O’Dowd.
Enid O’Dowd polled well but with the likes of well established community activist Carmencita Hederman on the ballot paper it was unlikely she would get in. The Green Party won a seat in Pembroke in the 1991 local Elections through Claire Wheeler.
More recently Enid O’Dowd has been doing some great work on Oireachtas expenses with a number of articles in the Irish Times and an appearance on Liveline.
From the 2007 General Election where then Green Party Leader Trevor Sargent ran with a running mate Cllr Joe Corr.
Trevor Sargent was easily elected and Joe Corr polled over 1,300 votes.
The Leaflet is full of the brightness and positive pictures used by Sargent in the past. I see too that he was Magill Politician of the year in 2007
Green Party candidate Bernadette Martin from the 2004 Local Elections in Drogheda. In 2004 she writes ‘….they leave Jesse James in charge of the banks” .
Green Party candidate JJ Power from the 2005 Kildare North By-election. JJ is son of former Fianna Fail TD Patrick Power and Brother of current Fianna Fail TD Sean Power. In the 2007 General Election both JJ Power and Brother Sean Power stood in Kildare South. Sean Power was elected.
(JJ at electionsireland.org)
Green Party leader John Gormleys leaflet from the 2007 General Election.
“We’ll deliver…
…24 Hour health centres and more acute hospital beds…
…2,400 extra teachers to reduce class sizes… ”
David Healy, a prominent Green member/councillor in Dublin for many years. The mention of Esperanto is interesting as a number of Founding members such as Christopher Fettes were enthusiastic about Esperanto.
Sadhbh O’Neill who famously was elected to Dublin City Council in 1991 despite not having campaigned (She was in the US at the time).
Oddly enough, that victory is attributed as part of why the Greens did not do particularly well (or as well as they thought they would) in the 1992 General Election, as some candidates/branches felt that the vote would turn out, canvass or no canvass.
The 6 Billion would have refered to money Albert promised we’d get from Europe.
It was a shock in 1994 when the Greens won 2 seats in the European Parliament Elections in Ireland. Patricia McKenna was seen as having a decent chance and subsequently shocked by topping the poll, however Nuala Aherns win was unexpected in many circles.
Ahern served two terms in the European Parliament having initially been elected to Wicklow Co Council for Greystones in 1991. Her Father Vincent McDowell was elected a Green councillor for Dun Laoghaire and stood in a number of General elections for the Greens (he also over the years stood for Labour and as an Independent).
Notice on the second scan the unusual Green Party Logo.
Irish Election Literature 
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