This Week At The Irish Election Literature Blog October 21, 2011
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The above comes from 1938 and was a reaction to the founding of the Raithcairn Gaeltacht in Meath. One commenter put it as “The reference to “migrants” refers to the breakup of large estates owned by absentee landlords in Meath and the allocation of this land to people from Gaeltacht speaking areas in Galway and Mayo in Gibbstown and Rathcairn”
From 1933 some Fianna Fail promises on Land Annuities
From Fianna Fail in 1969 and hidden in the middle we get “Labour wants to disgrace us in the eyes of the world by opening an embassy in Cuba a Communist Dictatorship in Latin America”
A Fine Gael leaflet for the forthcoming Referenda on Judges Pay and Oireachtas inquiries
I got this leaflet as Dana canvassed beside the Occupy Dame Street Camp!
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Wow! I never realised opposition to people from the west getting divided land in Leinster had any kind of expression at the level of parliamentary politics.
FIghting over the spoils perhaps? Did the FG-backing ranchers of Meath have eyes on the estates for themselves I wonder?
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The woman on the left in the photo at top left on the Dana leaflet looks like Ivana Bacik at this resolution.