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Irish Left Archive Podcast

Irish Left Archive

A podcast looking at Left politics in Ireland from the Irish Left Archive. We talk to activists, writers, historians, politicians and others involved in Left organisations and movements about their experiences of participating in Left parties and campaigns; Left publications and political documents they’ve been involved in; and the history and development of progressive politics in Ireland. We also look at the role of the Irish Left Archive and similar informal projects. The podcast is hosted by

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12:46

New Episodes Coming!

Irish Left Archive Podcast ·

2021/09/28

A quick update on the podcast and forthcoming episodes. We’ll be back with new episodes every fortnight from next Monday, and we have several activists lined up from across the Irish Left to talk to us about their experience of organising and campaigning.Thanks to everyone who has listened so far, and thanks to all our guests who have taken the time to talk to us! The Irish Left Archive Podcast looks at Left politics in Ireland, talking to activists, writers, historians, politicians and others

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11:25

Round Up! More to Come

Irish Left Archive Podcast ·

2021/05/31

This is a quick round up on the current series of the podcast and plans for the future. We’ll be back with more guests in the early Autumn. Thanks again to everyone who has spoken to us so far.Also, thanks to those who have provided documents for inclusion in the Irish Left Archive over the years; they are all listed in the acknowledgements on our content submissions page. If you have any documents relevant to the archive, we always appreciate receiving new material - you can contact us on the

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82:44

Official Irish Republicanism, 1962 to 1972, with...

Irish Left Archive Podcast ·

2021/05/24

In this episode, we’re joined by Charles Tuba to discuss Seán Swan’s book, Official Irish Republicanism, 1962 to 1972, and the issues it raises around changing views of Republicanism, and the period leading to and following the Republican split in 1969. The book was published in 2007, and listeners who haven’t read it will find a chapter available for free on the CAIN website.Before turning to the discussion of the book, we asked Charles about his own political background in Trade Unionism and the

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73:02

Allan Armstrong: The Scottish Left, Republican...

Irish Left Archive Podcast ·

2021/05/10

In this episode we talk to Allan Armstrong. Allan has been an activist on the Left in Scotland since the late 1960s. He was a member of the International Socialists (later the Socialist Workers’ Party) during the 1970s and was a convenor of Scottish Rank & File Teachers, leaving the SWP when it sought to dissolve the latter group. As a part of the Red Republicans, he was involved in the foundation of the Scottish Socialist Alliance, which became the Scottish Socialist Party. Within the SSP,

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71:55

Lynda Walker: Communist Party of Ireland, NICRA,...

Irish Left Archive Podcast ·

2021/04/26

In this episode we talk to Lynda Walker. Lynda has been a political activist in Belfast since moving there from her native Sheffield in 1969. She is a long-standing member of the Communist Party of Ireland, and served as National Chairperson of the party from 2006 to 2017. She was active in the Northern Ireland Civil Rights Association, and was instrumental in founding the Northern Ireland Women’s Rights Movement in 1975 and the establishment of Belfast Women’s Centre. Lynda is also an active

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61:47

Terry Dunne: Anti-war and Activist Movements,...

Irish Left Archive Podcast ·

2021/04/12

In this episode we talk to Terry Dunne. As an activist, Terry has been involved in anarchist groups, and the anti-war, environmental and social justice movements. Terry has a PhD in sociology and an interest in the historical sociology of social movements. He has written particularly on agrarian social movements, and his work has been published in journals such as Saothar, Critical Historical Studies and Rural History. Terry also writes and hosts the Peelers and Sheep: Rebel Tales from the Land

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75:24

Ciara Galvin: Labour

Irish Left Archive Podcast ·

2021/03/29

In this episode we talk to Ciara Galvin. Ciara is a Labour party councillor in Kildare for the Celbridge Local Electoral Area. She has been a member of Labour since 2010, and was involved in Labour Youth, serving as Trade Union Co-ordinator. She was elected to Kildare County Council in the 2019 local elections. Outside her local council role, Ciara works for SIPTU in the Workers’ Rights Centre.We’ll discuss how Ciara got involved in politics and the Labour party; her experience as a member through

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77:16

David Costelloe: Irish Military and Revolutionary...

Irish Left Archive Podcast ·

2021/03/15

In this episode we talk to David Costelloe. David writes on history and politics on his website Never Felt Better, and in particular has written an extensive series of articles on Irish military history entitled “Ireland’s Wars”, which spans from the earliest recorded conflicts on the island right up to the revolutionary period.We discuss with David his background and interest in history and in writing, and what led him to create the site and write about military history, before delving in to that

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84:58

Brian Hanley: Socialist Workers' Movement, 1980s and 90s

Irish Left Archive Podcast ·

2021/03/01

In this episode we talk to Brian Hanley about his experience of Left activism as a member of the Socialist Workers Movement (SWM) in the late 1980s and early 90s. We discuss the cultural and political influences that led him to join the SWM as a teenager in Limerick; the nature and political position of the organisation at that time; the experience of being an active member; and how the SWM changed and grew during that period.Brian is a historian in Trinity College Dublin. We’ve spoken to him

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75:56

Danny Morrison: Sinn Féin, An Phoblacht / Republican...

Irish Left Archive Podcast ·

2021/02/15

In this episode we talk to Danny Morrison. Danny is a writer and Republican political activist from West Belfast. He was national director of publicity for Sinn Féin in the 1980s, and editor, first, of the Sinn Féin paper Republican News in Belfast, and then of An Phoblacht when the two papers were merged. He is the author of several fiction and non-fiction works. He is also secretary of the Bobby Sands Trust, and was chair of the West Belfast festival, Féile an Phobail, until 2014.Danny was

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80:44

Sarah Clancy: Poetry, Activism, Politics, and the...

Irish Left Archive Podcast ·

2021/02/01

In this episode we talk to Sarah Clancy. Sarah is a poet and activist from Galway, and currently based in Clare. Her published collections include Stacey and the Mechanical Bull in 2011, Thanks for Nothing, Hippies in 2012, and The Truth and Other Stories in 2014. Sarah has often performed her work both at literary and at political events.We discuss Sarah’s background and how she came both to political activism and to poetry, how the two inflect each other, her experience of activism and analysis

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58:51

Laura Broxson: National Animal Rights Association (NARA)

Irish Left Archive Podcast ·

2021/01/18

In this episode we talk to Laura Broxson. Laura is an activist focused on animal rights and founder of the National Animal Rights Association (NARA). NARA is a non-hierarchical organisation, taking a radical animal rights and vegan perspective. We’ll discuss how Laura came to activism and founding NARA; the anti-fur and hare-coursing campaigns in which she’s been involved; different methods of campaigning, from street protest to legislative change; cooperation and interaction with Left parties and

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16:32

We're back! More Podcasts for 2021

Irish Left Archive Podcast ·

2021/01/11

We’re back after a taking break for a few months, so this is just a quick update on the podcast and the Irish Left Archive project.We’ll have full episodes with more guests coming out fortnightly, starting next week.One of the new elements we’ve added to the site in recent months is to start a collection of personal accounts and recollections from people who have participated on the Left in Ireland. We hope these will provide an interesting context to Left activity, in addition to the document

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75:36

John Goodwillie: Young Socialists, Socialist Labour...

Irish Left Archive Podcast ·

2020/11/02

In this episode we talk to John Goodwillie. John is a long-time political activist, who has been involved in a number of progressive parties and organisations. He was a member of Labour in the 1960s and belonged to the Young Socialists, Socialist Labour Action Group and subsequent Socialist Labour Alliance. He was involved with the Socialist Workers’ Movement (SWM) in the 1970s, and joined the Socialist Labour Party (SLP) when the SWM merged with that party as a tendency, and remained on the

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76:00

Brian Hanley: The Lost Revolution - The Story of the...

Irish Left Archive Podcast ·

2020/10/26

In this episode we talk to historian Brian Hanley about The Lost Revolution: The Story of the Official IRA and the Workers’ Party, the book which he co-authored with Scott Millar, published in 2009. We discuss the history of Official Republicanism from the move to the Left in the 1960s up to the contemporary, and how Brian and Scott went about researching and writing the history of that movement.Brian Hanley is Assistant Professor in Twentieth Century Irish History in the Department of History,

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71:57

Colm Breathnach: Workers Party, Democratic Left and...

Irish Left Archive Podcast ·

2020/10/12

In this episode we talk to Colm Breathnach. Colm was a member of the Workers Party throughout the 1980s, and was elected as a local councillor for the party in 1991 in Dún Laoghaire. He subsequently joined Democratic Left when that party split from the Workers Party, but left over the issue of coalition when the party entered government. He was later involved in the formation of the Irish Socialist Network. Since then Colm moved to Scotland where he was involved with the Scottish Socialist Party

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71:54

Ber Grogan: Abortion Rights Campaign, Repeal, and...

Irish Left Archive Podcast ·

2020/10/05

In this episode we talk to Ber Grogan. As an activist, Ber was involved with the Abortion Rights Campaign, and was a co-ordinator in Dublin North West during the referendum to repeal the eighth amendment. She also ran a Seanad campaign for the NUI panel, and is currently active in Communities Against Racism.We discuss the Abortion Rights Campaign, Together for Yes and the Eighth Amendment Repeal campaign, and the experience of organising, canvassing, producing campaign material and building

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58:03

Michael Pidgeon: Green Party, and Irish Election...

Irish Left Archive Podcast ·

2020/09/28

In this episode we are joined by Michael Pidgeon. Michael is a long-standing member of the Green Party and was elected to Dublin City Council in the 2019 local elections for the South West Inner City Local Electoral Area. He is chair of the city’s environment and climate policy committee, and leader of the Green Party group on Dublin City Council.Michael is also the creator of the Irish Election Manifesto Archive site, which hosts manifestos from Irish parties going back to the 1950s.We’ll be

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62:48

Orla Egan: Cork LGBT Archive

Irish Left Archive Podcast ·

2020/09/21

In this episode we are joined by Orla Egan of the Cork LGBT Archive. Orla founded the project in 2015, and has developed it to now encompass a digital archive available at CorkLGBTArchive.com, which is also retained as part of both the Digital Repository of Ireland and Europeana; a physical archive now housed in the Cork City Council Public Museum; a book entitled Queer Republic of Cork; and a number of exhibitions.We talk to Orla about how she developed the archive as a volunteer with limited

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55:36

Mary Muldowney: Trade Union and Left Campaigns, the...

Irish Left Archive Podcast ·

2020/09/14

In this episode we talk to Mary Muldowney about her political background and experience campaigning in the trade union movement and working in the Socialist Party; pro-choice campaigns including the Women on Waves ship and the abortion referendums; and her work as a historian, and how that relates to her activism.Mary is a historian in residence with Dublin City Libraries. She is the author of The Second World War and Irish Women: An Oral History, originally her PhD thesis. She has a particular

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