Irish Election Literature

… what you maybe meant to keep…

A selection of 1948 Election Posters January 18, 2010

Filed under: Clann na Poblachta,Fianna Fail,Fine Gael,Uncategorized — irishelectionliterature @ 9:38 am
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I got emailed these by a kind donor, apparently they are from Life Magazine.
First off the Posters are all pasted on to the wall in billboard slots, not a poster to be seen on the lamppost!
The 1948 election will be remembered for the coming of Clann na Poblachta. Here in Dublin North Central constituency. (Result from Electionsireland.org) they didn’t win a seat.
There is also a picture of Fine Gael Leader General Richard Mulcahy Fine Gael leader from 1944 to 1959. When Fine Gael did come to power in 1948 it was John A. Costello rather than party leader Mulcahy who became Taoiseach. This was due to Mulcahy having been in government during the post Civil War executions. In the 1948 government he held the role of Minister for Education.
Note how the Fianna Fail poster has been defaced with ‘And Emigrate!’.
The sender notes …”I found a TIME article about the election which stated that adulterating and appending derogatory statements to posters was a frequent occurrence during the campaign”


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“They Will Tax the Roof over Your Head” -Fine Gael anti Property Tax Leaflet 1994 January 16, 2010

Filed under: Fine Gael — irishelectionliterature @ 6:41 pm
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1994 and the Labour/ Fianna Fail coalition announce that they intend to introduce a ‘Property Tax’.   The arguements here against the tax still stand, so its just as relevant today as it was in 1994. The 1994 tax seemed to take into account both the value of the house and the income of householders.

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Liam Blaney, Joseph Cullen,Michael McBride- Independent Fianna Fail -Milford 2004 LE January 6, 2010

Filed under: Donegal,independent Fianna Fail — irishelectionliterature @ 9:07 pm
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Liam Blaney (son of Harry Blaney, Brother of Niall Blaney, nephew of Neil T Blaney etc….), Joseph Cullen and Michael McBride from the 2004 Local Elections which were not brilliant by any means for Independent Fianna Fail. In Milford Liam Blaney held on to his seat but McBride and Cullen failed to get elected.
(kindly sent by IFF at the time)

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John Curran -Fianna Fail -Dublin Mid West 2002 December 31, 2009

Filed under: Fianna Fail — irishelectionliterature @ 11:32 am
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The Newly created Dublin Mid West in 2002 where John Curran was comfortably elected.

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Michael Mulcahy -1997 GE -Dublin South Central December 24, 2009

Filed under: Fianna Fail — irishelectionliterature @ 10:30 am
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Michael Mulcahy stood on four occasions in Dublin South Central before finally being elected in 2002.

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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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Flyer for the Labour Youth 1989 Summer Festival November 7, 2009

Filed under: Labour Party — irishelectionliterature @ 11:59 pm
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A Paul Newman lookalike on a surfboard advertises the 1989 Labour Youth  Summer Festival. At the back the dilema of to stay in the hostel, sports hall or Tent is there as of course is the temptation to say you were under 26.

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Dino Cregan – Fine Gael -Cork South Central 1992 November 5, 2009

Filed under: Cork,Fine Gael — irishelectionliterature @ 5:26 pm
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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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Mary Mooney- Fianna Fail- Dublin SE 1992

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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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John Bracken -‘Man of the People’ – Laois-Offaly 2007

Filed under: Independent — irishelectionliterature @ 10:23 am
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John Bracken from 2007, where he got a lot of media coverage due to his posters, literature and a campaign song but mainly because of his looks.
His policies were sensible enough but he didn’t get a huge vote. He failed again to win a seat in the 2009 local elections.

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Colm Callanan – Christian Solidarity Party 2007 November 4, 2009

Filed under: Christian Solidarity Party,Right Wing Catholic — irishelectionliterature @ 10:21 pm
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Colm Callanan who stood in Laois-Offaly and Longford-Westmeath in the 2007 GE and also in 10 different LEAs in the 2009 local elections….
His electoral record at Elections.org
Its nice to put a face to a name.
Colm only wants your Number 1 votes (“…a No 2 vote, regrettably, is of little use to me”).
Colm promises “…to take action on … homosexual adoption, increasing levels of porn in newsagents, sexual innuendo in TV ads, etc”

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Phil Kearney -Green- 1985 LE Ballybrack

Filed under: Green Party,Green Party/ Green Alliance — irishelectionliterature @ 11:45 am
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This is from the 1985 Local election,  Ballybrack ward.  Apologies that the scan is so poor. I’ll try and redo it in due course.
Looking back a quarter of a century on, a number of things stand out, amongst them,
‘Stop and Reverse the Growth of Dublin’
A sign of the times too that Acid Rain was seen as the big threat as Global Warming wasn’t known about.
‘Energy Efficient homes- major insulation scheme needed to stop hypothermia, ‘
‘An end to Land Rezoning / Speculation scandal. Tax unused property.’
‘Double Jobbing- Councillors should not also be T.Ds or Euro M.P.s’.
Sellafield still known as Windscale.
Also the reference to Bishopscourt peace camp, which was a camp beside bishopscourt radar base in Co Down that ran from 1983 to 1986.
Theres a pamphlet from Bishopscourt here

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Pat Upton- Labour- Dublin South Central 1997

Filed under: Dublin South Central,Labour Party — irishelectionliterature @ 9:54 am
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The late Pat Uptons last election campaign. This leaflet gives the mark of the man , his experience, his attitude to fairness in Society and you can see that his politics is in the mould of the late Frank Cluskeys. His early passing at just 54 years of age deprived the public of an excellent representative.

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Alan Dukes Led Fine Gael- Dun Laoghaire 1989 November 3, 2009

Filed under: Dun Laoghaire,Fine Gael — irishelectionliterature @ 8:37 pm
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An Alan Dukes led Fine Gael in the 1989 General election. “Putting the Country First” was the Slogan. The Tallaght strategy is not mentioned by name but refered to as ‘The revolution of Consensus Politics’. The ‘Alan’ of his signature looks as if it may have a letter or two too many.

The familiar Barnes , Barrett, Cosgrave ticket was running for Fine Gael. Both Barnes and Barrett held their seats.

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Irish Socialist Network -‘Resistance’ November/December 2007 -pt 1

Filed under: Irish Socialist Network (ISN) — irishelectionliterature @ 8:36 pm
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This is the first four pages of the Newsletter ‘Resistance’ November/December 2007 issueproduced by the Irish Socialist Network. (I’ll put the inner fold up at a later date)

The ‘What we Stand For’ section explains the groups policys. To date John O’Neill has (to my knowledge) been their only candidate, running in the last two local elections and also in the last General Election.

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Paula Desmond – Labour -1999 Euro Elections Munster.

Filed under: Cork,Labour Party — irishelectionliterature @ 4:31 pm
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Paula Desmond – Labour -1999 Euro Elections Munster.
A stylish Paula Desmond from the 1999 Euro Elections Munster constituency.
Paula was daughter of the late Eileen Desmond and the late Dan Desmond.
Eileen Desmond had served for many years as a TD and had also been elected to the European Parliament in 1979. Eileen Desmond initially won a Dail seat at the 1965 Cork Mid By-election caused by the death of her husband Dan Desmond. Dan Desmond had been a TD for over 16 years.

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Diarmuid Naessens – Socialist Party 2004 South West Inner City

Filed under: Socialist Party — irishelectionliterature @ 3:39 pm
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Diarmuid Naessens wasn’t elected although did outpoll one of the Fianna Fail candidates.
Another thing from that count was that of the SWPs Martin Donohoes 308 tranfers, he got just 84.
Naessens was a very active member of the anti bin tax campaign.