Irish Election Literature

… what you maybe meant to keep…

Marian White -Workers Party 1991 LE -Blackrock November 11, 2009

Filed under: Dun Laoghaire,Workers Party — irishelectionliterature @ 8:43 pm
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Two leaflets, the first coming after the election.
On the front Marian White thanks voters, she came within 28 votes of winning a seat in Blackrock (First Count Details Here). It illustrates the inroads made by the Workers Party at the time and the future potential.
On the reverse we have Eamon Gilmore proclaiming ‘In Dun Laoghaire The Workers Party are Winning’ detailing the vote increase and election of himself, Denis O’Callaghan, Colm Breathnach and how close Marian White came to being elected.
The Second leaflet was ‘and the last shall be first’…..

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Eileen Lemass -Fianna Fail – 1989 European Elections

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Eileen Lemass- Daughter in law of Sean Lemass and Sister in law of Charlie Haughey. Here she mentions the Sean Lemass connection, but not the Haughey one.

The Double jobbing reference is a bit rich considering that she had a spell from 1984 to 1987 double jobbing as both an MEP and TD.

I presume the double jobbing jibe was against Prionsias de Rossa and Mary Harney who both stood for the Dail the same day.

Eileen Lemass failed to retain her seat .

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Owen Poole -Anti Water Charges Campaign 1997 Dublin North-East November 10, 2009

Filed under: Independent Left,Water Rates — irishelectionliterature @ 11:31 pm
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From the 1997 General Election, Anti Water Charges candidate Owen Poole running in Dublin North East.
The ‘template’ for this was also used by The Socialist Party in 1997, although as they were against the Water Charges it may have been a common template.

Poole polled 641 votes.

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Trevor Sargent -Green Party -Dublin North -2002 General Election

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First elected in 1992, the then Green Party Leader Trevor Sargents almost apocalyptic letter to Dublin North voters in 2002. Despite the Earth being on its last legs the inside part is positive and paints an excellent picture of Sargent. Not too many leaflets have planes,trains,  boats and buses in with a picture of a red squirrel. The leaflet also illustrates the diversity of the constituency from farming to fishing, recyling to Aer Lingus and transport issues also.
The Greens have a fondness for quotes from the papers and this is no different with quotes from teh Sunday World and Foinnse amongst others.

Sargent had been the Green Partys first ever Leader for less than a year.

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Jimmy Somers -Labour Party Newsletter – November 1983 Dublin Central By-election

Filed under: Dublin Central,Labour Party — irishelectionliterature @ 1:30 pm
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This was delivered during the 1983 Dublin Central by-election campaign. In tight times the Social Welfare Christmas Bonus was to be paid thanks to Labour Minister Barry Desmond. The voters weren’t thanking him as Somers finished fifth on the day behind the Fianna Fail, Fine Gael, Workers Party and Sinn Fein Candidates.
Jimmy Somers is a former President of SIPTU and was previously in the ITGWU. He was also a local to the area.

 

Mae Sexton- Independent 1992 -Longford Roscommon

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New Labour Party recruit, Mae Sexton was initially elected to Longford County Council and UDC in 1991 as an Independent.
This is her missive from the 1992 General Election.
Over the years a number of Independent Councillors such as Mae Sexton and Kate Walsh joined the PDs.
Here though Mae ‘never felt that joining a political party would accomodate the free expression of my points of view’.
She was also opposed to Service charges and a number of other items that could have seemed incompatible with the PDs.
In 2010 she joined the Labour Party. Another councillor to do so was John Kelly in neighbouring Roscommon.

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Jim Fitzsimons , Paddy Lalor -Fianna Fail Leinster 1989 Euro Elections. November 9, 2009

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In 1989 both the General and European Elections were held on the same day.
Both Lalor and Fitzsimons were elected here as Fianna Fail held its 2 seats, despite a drop in the Fianna Fail vote since the 1984 Euro Elections.

Laoisman Paddy Lalor, previously a TD for Laois-Offaly since 1961 had been elected to the European Parliament in 1979. Lalor, in his time, had served as a Minister for Posts & Telegraphs and Industry and Commerce.This 1989 election was to be his last. Lalor was a noted hurler and was part of the 1949 Laois team that won the Bob O’Keeffe Cup (Leinster title).

Meathman Jim Fitzsimons, who had briefly been a Minister of State in 1982, had been elected to the Dail in 1977. He stood in four European Elections from 1984 to 1999.

 

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ACRA letter regarding ‘Local Government Service Surcharge’ 1985 Local Elections

Filed under: Dun Laoghaire,Elections,protest — irishelectionliterature @ 11:06 am
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Letter from ACRA to householders in the Dun Laoghaire area during the 1985 local elections campaign.
Already only Eight years after Domestic Rates had been abolished by the 1977 Jack Lynch government, Local authorities were looking for ways to supplement their income.
Fianna Fail opposed the Local Government Service surcharge, Labour were split and Fine Gael proposed it!
Tony O’Toole, who signed the leaflet is/was very active in the movement to abolishing ground rents.

I’m curious if the Philip Gillick listed is the same Philip Gillick who was Justice Floods Tipstaff?
It would be an interesting coincidence, especially considering who and what was being investigated.

 

Kevin Fitzpatrick- Sinn Fein Dun Laoghaire -1989 November 6, 2009

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Kevin Fitzpatrick who fought a number of elections for Sinn Fein in Dun Laoghaire in the 80s and early 90s. He was involved with the Concerned Parents Against Drugs and the Premier daries in Monkstown refered to is long gone.

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Garret Fitzgerald letter of retirement to constituents 1992.

Filed under: Fine Gael — irishelectionliterature @ 11:18 am
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Garret writes thanking ‘all who have supported me in the eight general elections since 1969 in Dublin South East’.
He also asks for a number one vote for Frances Fitzgerald and number 2 for Joe Doyle.
In the end Frances Fitzgerald got in, but the second Fine Gael Seat was lost to Michael McDowell.

 

Senator David Norris Newsletter 2002

Filed under: Independent,seanad — irishelectionliterature @ 9:42 am
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The senators newsletter from the 2002 Seanad election campaign. (I’ve presented it in grayscale as the images were, rather aptly, too colourful). Views expressed on East Timor and a host of other interesting topics.

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From 2002 “Do you want to swap this man for a Sinn Fein or second Fianna Fail TD?” Pat Rabbitte -Labour -Dublin South West

Filed under: Labour Party — irishelectionliterature @ 12:09 am
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Pat Rabbitte plays the I’m in trouble card with his “Do you want to swap this man for a Sinn Fein or second Fianna Fail TD?” leaflet from the 2002 General Election Campaign. As it happens Both Sinn Fein and Fianna Fail won seats and it was Brian Hayes that lost out.

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John A. Murphy – Seanad 1989 November 5, 2009

Filed under: Cork,seanad — irishelectionliterature @ 5:42 pm
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Noted historian Professor John A. Murphy from the 1989 Seanad Campaign. He was elected and it was his last Seanad election.  The “issues he addressed in the outgoing Seanad”  were very forward thinking.

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Dino Cregan – Fine Gael -Cork South Central 1992

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Denis ‘Dino’ Cregan from the 1992 General Election in Cork South Central. Dino is another ‘Man of the people’, this time though ‘a man of the people for the people’.  Dino evidently did a great job as Lord Mayor (and possibly has friends in the Evening Echo) and according to himself did a great job in the Seanad. Still he failed to win the seat.
He is also associated with ‘Dinos’ chipper in Cork.
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‘We buy our homes and developers buy the big parties’-Eamon Gilmore -Workers Party-1989 Dun Laoghaire

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How apt was this, If all of the below propositions had been in place at the time, we may not be in as bad a state as we are now.

Its this 1989 election where Gilmore was first elected to the Dail.

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Mary Mooney- Fianna Fail- Dublin SE 1992

Filed under: Fianna Fail — irishelectionliterature @ 1:36 pm
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Liberties based Mary Mooney had been elected to the Dail in 1987 for Dublin South Central and was seen as a bright young star of Fianna Fail. However she lost her seat in the 1989 General election. Boundary changes led to her having to change to Dublin South East in 1992 , where she failed to be elected.

I wonder  does the ‘Liberties around the houses race’ still take place?

 

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Tony Gregory- 1999 local elections

Filed under: Dublin Central,Independent Left — irishelectionliterature @ 11:42 am
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The last local elections that the late Tony Gregory stood in. Gives a good illustration of his work since being initially elected in 1979.

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‘Important Message For West Wicklow’- Billy Timmins 2002 Fine Gael

Filed under: Fine Gael — irishelectionliterature @ 10:59 am
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Geography plays a major part in Irish elections, especially in larger rural constituencies. Often transfers are done locally rather than party wise.  The nature of things is that more appears to be done in an area or town which has a TD than not.

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