An interview with then Taoiseach and Fianna Fail leader Albert Reynolds from “Ceiliúradh an 60ú Árd Fheis”. The publication was a special programme for the 60th Ard Fheis which contained some fantastic pieces on the history of the party, its TD’s ,Ministers and much more.
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From the Clár of the 1993 Fianna Fail Ard Fheis The Message from An Taoiseach Albert Reynolds to delegates.
From the Clár of the 1993 Fianna Fail Ard Fheis, profiles of the candidates for Honorary Treasurer and Committee of 15 elections. Some familiar names amongst them.
From the 1995 Divorce Referendum a leaflet produced by Veritas outlining various reasons given by The Catholic Bishops of Ireland to vote No in the Referendum .It ends with the following quote…
“In our considered judgement, the introduction of divorce would be false kindness, misguided compassion and bad law.”
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From the 1983 Abortion Referendum Campaign, three ‘Vote No’ Posters . “Raped Pregnant No Choice?” , “Catholic State or Irish Nation” and “Men Can’t Get Pregnant, Let Women Decide”.
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From the 1973 General Election Campaign a newsletter “Election News” from Official Sinn Fein. It includes an Interview with Tomas MacGiolla and pieces on Equality for Women, Defending the Farm and other issues.
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From the 1974 Local Elections a Leaflet from Pat Carroll (husband of Joan Burton), Griff Cashman, Pat Lacey and Jimmy Somers who were running for The Labour Party in Area Number 4 Cabra / Arran Quay for a seat on Dublin Corporation. Pat Carroll was elected polling 1,109 votes. The other candidates were unsuccessful Jimmy Somers polled 1,268, Griff Cashman 554 and Pat Lacey 422 votes.
The leaflet contains some interesting policies on Housing for The City.
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From the 1959 Referendum on changing the voting system an eight page document from Fianna Fail outlining the reasons whu they wanted the electoral system changed and answering various questions on the issue. Its a very interesting read as it fails to really address the reason why the proposal was defeated, ie we would have had majority Fianna Fail Governments for an awful long time.
I’ve uploaded it in pdf format Click on the image below or Click Here to Launch
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From the Clár of the 1984 Ogra Fianna Fail National Conference, details of the Disco as well as candidate profiles. Among the candidates were Ciaran Haughey , Miacheál Martin and former Presidential hopeful Sean Gallagher.
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From the 1973 Presidential campaign a flyer from Erskine Childers who was the Fianna Fail candidate. Childers was successful defeating Fine Gael candidate Tom O’Higgins. Childers sadly passed away when in office on the 17th of November 1974.
A “Stop Israel’s Slaughter in Gaza” leaflet from the Ireland Palestine Solidarity Campaign with details of the Israeli attack on Gaza. On the reverse are “4 ways to take action”.
The Ireland Palestine Solidarity Campaign website
From the 1997 General Election a leaflet from Máire Kirrane who was running for The National Party which had been founded by Nora Bennis in the wake of her run in the 1994 European Elections. They are now called The Catholic Democrats and Theresa Heaney ran for them in the 2014 European Elections
Máire Kirrane polled 1,169 votes and missed out on a seat.
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From the 1948 General Election Campaign a Labour Party leaflet “Wings of Death” attacking Fianna Fails spending on Aircraft rather than on TB sufferers.
From the winter 1975 edition of “Iris Fianna Fail” an article “Women -Why We Need More of Them in Politics”.
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The Programme for the 1987 Cairde Fail ‘Dinnéar An Taoisigh’ held in The Burlington Hotel. Includes a list of raffle prizes and menu (which includes cigars after the tea and coffee) and a page for Autographs (alas this page is empty).
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A very unusual piece of Election Ephemera here…. These designs along with a card and a handwritten note “Running in Local Election on Job Creation” were dropped in doors by Independent Noel Bennett who was running in Ballyfermot Drimnagh for a seat on Dublin City Council. He polled 102 votes.
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From the 1973 General Election a leaflet from Peigin Doyle who was running for Official Sinn Fein in Dublin South Central. She polled 1521 votes and missed out on a seat. She also stood in the 1974 Local Elections in Pembroke/Rathmines polling 962 votes and also missing out on a seat.
I’m told Charlie Bird was her Election Agent.
Many thanks to the person who passed on the following link which contains a series of archive Workers Party Material
A leaflet sent to Labour Party members from the 2002 Labour Party Leadership contest. It has profiles , provided by the candidates, for both the Leadership and Deputy Leadership Elections.
Pat Rabbitte was elected Party Leader defeating Roisin Shortall, Eamon Gilmore and Brendan Howlin. Liz McManus was elected Deputy Leader defeating Joan Burton, Willie Penrose and Joe Costello.
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