Irish Election Literature

… what you maybe meant to keep…

Dick Roche -Fianna Fail – Wicklow 1987 November 3, 2009


Dick Roches first attempt at a Dail seat in 1987. He won a seat.   Nothing much to it only a lovely picture of Dick and a few other bibs and bobs.

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Liz McManus, Dermot Tobin, Anne Egan -Workers Party 1991 Local Elections -Bray September 24, 2009


From the 1991 local elections, a leaflet for Liz McManus, Dermot Tobin, and Anne Egan running for The Workers Party in Bray.
We also have a smiling Prionsias De Rossa pictured with a happy family. The Workers Party with a new logo and leaflet design. They went back to the old logo (or something very similar) after the split.

“Anne is well known as a Lollipop lady..” .

Liz Mc Manus

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Mildred Fox -Wicklow 1997 September 21, 2009


Mildred Fox an Independent TD for Wicklow, was first elected in 1995 in a By Election caused by the death of her father Johnny Fox. Johnny Fox was a Fianna Fail Councillor who ran as an Independent candidate in the 1992 General Election , having failed to get a nomination from Fianna Fail.

This Leaflet is from the 1997 General election. The issues addressed are mainly of a rural nature.

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PEOPLE AND PLANET BEFORE PROFIT? September 11, 2009


In recent weeks there has been much ado in certain circles about a new disgruntled ex Greens/People Before Profit Alliance.

But what would they call it?

….. was this 2002 Wicklow leaflet of the SWPs Catherine Kennedy a trial run?

“People and Planet Before Profit” anyone?

 

*Catherine stood for Sinn Fein in the 2009 Bray Town Council elections.