This week on the Irish Election Literature Blog… July 16, 2010
Posted by WorldbyStorm in Irish Politics, The Left.trackback
Many thanks to AK for the following…
Anyway this week I’d thought I’d start off with Two Manifestos from the Late Sean Dublin Bay Loftus that I posted already
his 1992 one
and his 1997 one
Then from1985 a leaflet from The Workers Party’s Tom Crilly running in Pembroke.
From last year a WSM flyer against Education Cuts and Fees
Then a few oddities
Cowen in 1980 and 1981
from Green Party Candidate Ruairi Holohan..“The Brown Envelope Campaign”
“Remember This? -’No Irish, No Blacks, No Dogs’ – Vote No” …. to the Citizenship Referendum Poster
something topical…
Ivor Callely ‘Nobody Does it Better’ from 1992
and finally John Stafford (and Jack Charltons) guide to World Cup USA 94
The WP leaflet is spot on regarding deindustrialisation in the interests of property development. That was 1985. Long before the Celtic Tiger years. Fits nicely also with Conor McCabe’s series about housing over on ILR http://www.irishleftreview.org/tag/irish-housing/
That area Crilly talked about was to be hit with an awful lot of similar developments. The Johnston Mooney and O’Brien Bakery to name just the one.
One of the wider implications of the property boom was good profit making businesses selling up as their premises were worth far more than the business could ever make.
You’d have to wonder how many jobs were lost this way, jobs that may have still been in place now.
In the mid 90s for a few years, each morning I walked from Harolds Cross down to get the Dart. There were a lot of small businesses/ Workshops based by the canal. Most of which had been there for years and years. Few if any of them are left now as they’ve all been apartmented over.
Ivor Callely : Nobody does it better at screwing the tax payer for a second house he doesnt own.