Latest on Irish Election Literature Blog…

As AK of IELB notes:

Some old and new here and a bit of a bumper week for the left.

‘We Buy our homes and the developers buy the big parties’ Eamon Gilmore 1989

Tom Crilly and Andy Smith 1987 campaign letter regarding the closure of Sir Patrick Dunns Hospital.

John McManus from the 1985 Local elections.

Tony Gregory –Voice Against Heroin -1999

Phil Kearney Green 1985 LE Ballybrack… The Green Alliance wanted to ‘Stop and Reverse the Growth of Dublin’ ,Kearney had a spell at the Bishopscourt peace camp too.

First four pages of the Irish Socialist Network Newsletter ‘Resistance’ November/December 2007 issue

Diarmuid Naessens –Socialist Party 2004 LE

Sinn Fein ‘Women in an Ireland of equals’ from 2002

And finally 2 others…

The 1985 Fianna Fail National Collection, the face on the front will tell you where the money may have gone…

Given the recent post on the CSP. Colm Callanan (the chap who stood 10 times in the June local elections)

Amongst his promises “…to take action on … homosexual adoption, increasing levels of porn in newsagents, sexual innuendo in TV ads, etc”

and then one more ….if you want to frighten the kids.

I also got directed at these during the week, not exactly of the left but interesting all the same, an awful lot of what they wanted ended up happening or something similar at least.

“On a slight tangent, if you’re interested (and don’t already have them), I’ve got copies of the PD’s proposed referendum:

and the attached explanatory memo.