A Leaflet from the Kildare Turf Cutters Association advertising their march on the Dail on the 7th of March.
“Do you give a sod about the future of turf cutting in Ireland?” -Come and support the 10,000 strong turf cutters Dail March -March 7th 2012
Many thanks to the sender
From the 1992 Maastricht Referendum a “Don’t be bullied -Vote No” leaflet from the Green Party.
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Apologies but I couldn’t resist going up and getting a few Aengus O’Snodaigh leaflets out. To be fair he’s fairly prolific.
From the 1992 General Election campaign, the John Bruton led Fine Gael proclaim -“The minute we take office mortgage holders will have less to worry about”
From the 1977 General Election “The Coalition Discriminates Against Women”- “Fianna Fail Will Put That Right”.
A leaflet for Antrim based candidate John Ramsey who is running for the Fianna Fail Committee of Twenty at the 2012 Ard Fheis.
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A flyer for Meath based candidate Donnacha Maguire who is running for the Fianna Fail Committee of Twenty at the 2012 Ard Fheis.
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From the 2012 Fianna Fail Committee of Twenty election, to take place at the Ard Fheis , a flyer from Galway based candidate Stephanie Murphy-Penn.
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A leaflet from Claudia Kennedy a candidate in the 2012 Fianna Fail Committee of Twenty elections which will be contested at the Fianna Fail Ard Fheis. The Donegal based teacher is a long time Fianna Fail activist.
Amongst her policies are
FF needs to be issue driven gaining new members through highlighting issues on the ground that are important for people.
Our Septic Tank Rallies in DSW are an excellent example of this.
and that
All FF MEMEBERS MUST CHALLENGE ALL CUTS TO EDUCATION.
The Claudia Kennedy for Committee of 20 Facebook page
Many thanks to the sender
Dated 2nd January 2006 a leaflet containing Bertie Aherns New Year Message to Fianna Fail members. In it he details Budget 2006 and at length details Fianna Fails achievements in government from 1997 onwards.
From the 2009 Local Elections a leaflet for Socialist Party candidate in Mulhuddart Denis Keane. Keane polled 642 votes and missed out on a seat whilst running mate Ruth Coppinger was easily elected.
From 2002 a pamphlet from the Socialist Workers Party entitled “Why Irish women must have the right to choose”.
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Again something slightly away from the usual but something I found recently and that I thought might be of interest. A 1989 Ad for the Irish Times written by Dick Walsh.
This month marks an anniversary of sorts for me, its 30 years since I started collecting election leaflets!
What began as a small pile of Dun Laoghaire Constituency leaflets from the February 1982 election has grown over time to seven plastic crates full of material in my attic and a few hundred leaflets in my office space downstairs and a few old posters too!
30 years later I’m also totally confident in my hobby. For years I felt embarrassed when asking people to keep stuff for me, I got strange looks and was asked umpteen times “What do you want to keep them for?”.
I was lucky too in that relatives and friends of my parents kept material for me and in school and college people kept stuff for me too. Over the years I also wrote letters to parties and candidates requesting material.
The advent of the internet and email really opened up a whole new world for me, not just being able to start this blog but also in the ability to communicate with candidates and parties requesting material.
It has also enabled people to get in contact with me and send me stuff, something which I am eternally grateful for.
I’ve also been able to supply leaflets to people for various needs. Be it leaflets from deceased relatives, museums, exhibitions, leaflets for books , magazines, newspapers, a thesis on women politicians fashion, or even recently leaflets for a TV show. Last week some old leaflets I’d posted were quoted in the Dail.
It has also opened the door for radio and television appearances, interviews, features in newspapers and magazines.
Aside from the physical material I have also collected thousands of election/ political related images and pdf files which are all backed up regularly to an external disk.
Given I’m a one man band and this is only a hobby I still have thousands of leaflets unscanned and yet to be posted.
As ever if you’ve an old or new leaflet lying about , want to see a certain candidate, want some old leaflets to start a collection yourself , then get in touch. irishelectionliterature AT gmail.com is the email.
Anyway, instead of posting my favourites (of which there are way too many), Here’s some leaflets from that February 1982 election
From the campaign for the Committee of Twenty elections at this year’s Fianna Fail Ard-Fheis a leaflet from candidate James Lawless. His Website
Many Thanks to the sender who notes…
“The committee is a long standing one and originated as 15 members elected from the ordinary membership. This was DeValera’s creation as he wanted ensure the cabinet / hierarchy remained in touch with the party faithful.
Over recent times the national executive grew extra layers and is now a much larger body and likely to be reformed in terms of composition and numbers over the new term. However it is likely the committee of 20/15 will be retained as it is unique in being the only component of the executive elected by open election across the national party.
The committee of 15 was increased to the committee of 20 with the introduction of gender quotas a few years back and now must contain 10 men and 10 women, all elected via a single ballot paper with a complex count/quota system.”
In a speech in the Dail the last week Joe Higgins referred to some old Eamon Gilmore Leaflets that I’d posted here previously.
Just reposting them again with some of the text from the speech.
Deputy Joe Higgins:   —–I refer to what does not lie, namely, the history of this issue. There was a fresh faced councillor in Dún Laoghaire in the 1980s—–
Deputy Emmet Stagg:   Deputy Boyd Barrett.
Deputy Joe Higgins:   —–who put out a statement that he was the first councillor in the country to propose and win the abolition of the water rates. The same councillor, in a new manifestation—–
An Ceann Comhairle:   The Deputy is supposed to be asking a supplementary question not giving a lecture on history.
Deputy Joe Higgins:   —–in Democratic Left in the late 1980s and early 1990s—–….
Deputy Joe Higgins:   His thwarted political ambitions have a lot more to do with his outbursts here than anything I can say.
An Ceann Comhairle:   Deputy Higgins, through the Chair please.
Deputy Joe Higgins:   He made your seat in 1987 in campaigns against the local rates.
An Ceann Comhairle:   I am going to call an end to this if the Deputy does not conclude.
Deputy Joe Higgins:   In a new reincarnation, Democratic Left—–
Deputy Brendan Howlin:   In 1872.
Deputy Joe Higgins:   —–he stated that the PAYE taxpayers whom his party represented had already paid enough tax for local services and should not have to pay again. …..
I’ve a section dedicated to Gilmore leaflets here
From the second Lisbon treaty Campaign a leaflet from Fianna Fail with the slogan “A YES Vote Is The Best Vote For JOBS and WORKERS’ RIGHTS”.
From the 2004 Local Elections a leaflet for Ciarán MacAnnraoi and Christy Burke of Sinn Fein who were running in the North Inner City ward for a seat on Dublin County Council. ‘Big Ciarán’ MacAnnraoi polled 585 votes and failed to win a seat whilst Christy Burke topped the poll with 1,869 votes and won a seat.
Many thanks to the sender.
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