I really love this Labour Ad from the February 1982 General Election its so full of irony. A big headline “When the going gets tough … we don’t run away” with a picture of then Labour Party leader Michael O’Leary. Nine months later he had resigned as Labour Party leader and joined Fine Gael!!
“When the going gets tough … we don’t run away” -Labour February 1982 March 19, 2012
From 2012 – Labour “Delivering In Difficult Times” March 14, 2012
From early 2012 a Labour Party leaflet listing their achievements in Government. Delivering In Difficult Times”
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Taken from Eamon Gilmores Spring 2012 Newsletter
From 1979 leaflet from Ballymun Branch of The Labour Party to Labour Councillors and Tenants of Ballymun. March 5, 2012
From circa 1979 a leaflet produced by the Ballymun Branch of The Labour Party to Labour Councillors and Tenants of Ballymun. The leaflet contains a statement by the local branch of the Labour party criticising the decision to increase heating charges in the Ballymun Estate.
The statement makes a number of points.
Tenants are supposed to have heating for nine months of the year but this is not always the case.
Tenants have no choice but to use the heating
The increase will send some tenants into rent arrears
Finally it points out that rents paid by Corporation Tenants are going to swell the profits of banks and financiers.
Many thanks to the sender
From Labour 1973 “Taxes? Prices? Rents? Cost of living? … Fianna Fail has lost control” March 4, 2012
From the 1973 General Election campaign an ad from the Labour Party indicating that Fianna Fail had lost control of a lot of things. “Taxes? Prices? Rents? Cost of living? Redundancies?”
“The Lisbon Treaty -Good For Gays – Vote Yes” -Labour LGBT February 29, 2012
From the Lisbon Treaty campaign a leaflet from the Labour LGBT group urging a ‘Yes’ vote arguing that the treaty was “Good For Gays”
The Government information leaflet on the Household Charge February 18, 2012
The Government information leaflet on the Household Charge (or Phil Hogans Household Tax), to be delivered to every house in the country.
Outlines what the tax is for, the penalties, the ways to pay, who is liable and more.
“Keeping in Touch” Leaflet from Dominic Hannigan -Labour Meath East February 17, 2012
A “Keeping in Touch with Ashbourne” Leaflet from Labour TD for Meath East Dominic Hannigan. It has a small piece about Labour in Government, congratulations to President Michael D and also a page ‘Dominic on Job Training’.
Many thanks to the sender.
“The Sunday Independerant” from 2006 Left Tribune -Labour Youth February 10, 2012
From a 2006 copy of the Labour Youth Magazine ‘Left Tribune’ which I’ve uploaded in *.pdf
“The Sunday Independerant”, which I though was fairly good. The issue of Left Tribune also covers Labours role in 1916, riots in Dublin, Freedom of the press and some other items too.
From the 2011 General Election Campaign Labour’s Plan for Jobseekers January 27, 2012
From the 2011 General Election Campaign Labour’s Plan for Jobseekers
Download *.pdf HERE or click on the image to launch
From 1985 a pamphlet from Red Wedge – “Fact Not Fiction Series” No. 1. January 12, 2012
From the mid 80s a pamphlet from Red Wedge “Fact Not Fiction Series” No. 1.
It outlines the priorities of the project which was aimed at Youth. They were training, Unemployment, Allowances, Low Pay, Gay Rights, Housing and Internationalism.
Red Wedge was a collective of artists and musicians who came together in opposition to the Conservative government of Margaret Thatcher. They worked closely with the Labour Party, organising gigs and public meetings in support of their effort to defeat Thatcher in the 1987 election.
Amongst the artists involved were Billy Bragg, The Style Council, The Communards and Jerry Dammers. Others that made guest appearances included Madness, Prefab Sprout, Tom Robinson, Lloyd Cole and The Smiths.
From 1965 -“Prosperity for Whom?” – “Vote Labour” January 3, 2012
From the 1965 General Election a leaflet from the Labour Party asking “Prosperity for Whom?”. Many thanks to the sender.
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Protecting The Taxpayer -Labour’s analysis of the NAMA Bill 2009 – Labour Party December 21, 2011
From 2009 , ‘Protecting The Taxpayer’ -Labour’s analysis of the NAMA Bill 2009
I’ve uploaded this document in PDF format. Click on the image or on the link below to launch.
In Pdf
Protecting The Taxpayer -Labour’s analysis of the NAMA Bill 2009
“Fighting For Our Economic Sovereignty” – Pre Budget Leaflet from John Lyons -Labour -Dublin North West December 13, 2011
“Fighting For Our Economic Sovereignty” a Pre 2012 Budget Leaflet from Labour Dublin North West TD John Lyons. It outlines the state we are in, Labours achievements in Government, has a message from Eamon Gilmore and more.
The leaflet is also in pdf format HERE
“By working together, socialist and christian activists can radically change the nature of politics in Ireland” -Emmet Stagg Leaflet late 80’s November 26, 2011
With a striking image and the famous quote “When I give food to the poor, they call me a saint. When I ask why are they poor, they call me a Communist.” from Archbishop Camara, this leaflet from Emmet Stagg asks “By working together, socialist and christian activists can radically change the nature of politics in Ireland”.
I don’t know if anything came from this Christian Socialist message which I think was from the 1989 General Election campaign.
“Fine Gael -Every Little Hurts!” – Labour Party ad from the 2011 General Election November 12, 2011
“Fine Gael -Every Little Hurts!” a Labour Party ad from the 2011 General Election based on ads for Tesco. They appeared in newspapers during the campaign.
From 1997 “Ireland’s Economy” -Labour Party leaflet outlining Economic growth, Consumption, GNP, Unemployment etc November 11, 2011
From the 1997 General Election campaign a leaflet from The Labour Party “Ireland’s Economy”. It contains all sorts of economic stats from the time such as Economic growth, Consumption, GNP, Unemployment etc with graphs illustrating improvements under the Rainbow Coalition.
From 1948 General Election “Political Parties and The Teachers” issued by the INTO November 6, 2011
This is great, the results of a questionnaire on teaching issues sent by the INTO to “Messrs deValera, Mulcahy, Norton, McBride, Blowick and Everett” . Its from the 1948 General Election and not all replied.
You can imagine many of the newspapers today having a field day with some of the questions.
Irish Election Literature 
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