The CLR Political Quiz …Number 8 …. October 26, 2012
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1. Who was the only ever candidate for the “Sligo-Leitrim Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Constituents by Lying and Cheating Politicians” ?
2. What song has the words “Pearse and McDermott will pray for you on high, Eager and ready, for love of you they die” ?
3. Who did Alan Shatter succeed as Minister for Justice?
4. Who is the only leader of an Irish political party to have been murdered?
5. In the Republic of Ireland, did the CPI-ML ever field candidates in General Elections or was it just by-elections (and local elections) ?
6. Which former TD was formerly Luke ‘Ming’ Flanagans Landlord?
7. Where was the first Fianna Fail Ard Fheis held?
8. In 2009 Ted Tynan was elected for the Workers Party to Cork City Council. It was his second time to be elected to the Council, when was the first?
9. What year did Eamonn McCann contest his first Westminster Election?
10. Who is the woman pictured below?
3. Trick question! It was Brendan Smith, one of the ministers who was only in for a couple of weeks.
4. Seamus Costello.
6. Fahy (can’t remember his first name).
7. La Scala Theatre?
10. Maire Geoghegan. (Anyone who says Maire Geoghegan-Quinn is wrong, because that photo would have been taken before she was married)
1. Was it Flukey Gorman?
6. Frankeenfahy
10. M. Geoghehan-Quinn. Image used in her 1975 by-election when she was already MGQ
Alright then, MGQ it is. As the man in the surgical truss said, “I stand corrected.”
9. I think it would be only recent, as a PBP or Sociaist Environmentalist candidate. 2005?
2: Soldiers of the Rearguard
4: John McMichael (UDP)
4. John Turnley
There was me thinking it was just Seamus Costello and so far theres been three answers… was the UDP in existence when John McMichael was killed? also was John Turnly the leader of the Irish Independence Party?
As an aside a leaflet from Turnly
http://irishelectionliterature.wordpress.com/2010/06/14/john-turnly-irish-independence-party-1979-westminster-elections-north-antrim/
McMichael was UDP leader at the time he was killed.
That’s a good question. I’ve seen him listed as chairman of the Irish Independence Party, but not sure if that meant he was also leader.
But are the UDP an Irish political party?
Frankly, I think that’s a very partitionist mentality …
8 – was it 1979? The bould Ted was knocking on the door for some time!
Ted Tynan was 1979 with the SFWP, he was elected to a certain extent on the back of his and the party’s involvement in a long-running rent strike over the poor condition of council houses in certain areas of the city. Kathleen Lynch’s father in law was another big wheel in the campaign which saw an invasion of the council chamber not unlike the one which happened recently as a protest against the Household Charges. The story of the strike itself is fascinating, it lasted for years and saw people willing to go to jail for the cause and a march through Cork by trade unionists who supported the rent strikers as well as an impromptu demonstration by building workers in the city.
Was lynch herself not also involved? Am I correct in saying she was initially got involved in SFWP after being involved in that campaign in the ‘hane?
I’m sure she was. She actually told me that her father in law was one of the main men herself when I E-mailed her a couple of years back looking for info on the strike.
My first thought on 2 was that it was out of Song of the Faithful Departed by the Radiators.
On question 5, I think the CPI-ML ran in a couple of local election constituencies in Dublin in 1974, getting 43 votes apiece (Vipond and Angela Cunningham) and Vipond ran in the 1974 election in South Down getting 152 votes. Which would mean that the whopping 157 votes gained in the 1973 Monaghan by-election represent the electoral high water mark of Mao Tse-Tung Thought with an Albanian tinge in Ireland. Chew on that urban sophisticates.
Sorry. 175 votes. Apologies to the eighteen Monaghan Maoists.
After I give out the answers next week, I’ll do a post on the electoral record of the CPI-ML. They were never a registered party for elections so it can be tricky to track candidates.
Oh and congrats to Sligo. I gather one of the players donned a Chelsea kit and a John Terry facemask later on in the celebrations.
2 sounds like something by Black 47, but I’m not sure what.
Not hardly:
1. Noel Flukey Gorman
2. The Legion of the Rearguard (about FF in the 1920s)
3. Brendan Smith
4. Costello
5. Vipond in Down in 1974 General election
6. Frank Fahy
7. The Rotunda
8. 1979
9. 1970 – he stood as Independent Labour
10. Maire Geoghegan (the Quinn came later)