This week from the Irish Election Literature Blog… February 26, 2010
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As AK notes…
Yet another mad week, God knows who the next resignation will be…
Anyway here’s Trevor in happier times.
In other green news…
Deirdre De Burcas Replacement in the Seanad Mark Dearey.
Then off we pop to the Left with…
Eamon McCann running for The Socialist Environmental Alliance in 2005.
Then John Dunne of The Workers Party from Dublin North West in 1997.
And then from ten years later we have John O’Neill of the ISN runnning in Dublin North West.
Back then to 1980s…
A Kieran Doherty H-Block candidate Poster from the 1981 General Election.
and A booklet from 1986 proclaiming ‘A New and Exciting Option in Irish Politics’…..
I had forgotten that Mary McAleese was with RTE for a while.
…and the first Dail in 1919.
And finally, a calling card to surely Win Friends and Influence People…
Thanks as ever to AK… a great roundup of materials…
The Cedar Lounge Revolution 
“I had forgotten that Mary McAleese was with RTE for a while.”
And was witchunted for stating the obvious that the Hunger Strike was having an inmpact on the Nationalist masses.
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Interesting that Eamon McCann acknowledges on his Socialist Environmental Alliance canvass card that he’s a member of the SWP, something I don’t think is done by People Before Profit Alliance candidates, although I am open to correction.
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They don’t generally do so, but the very occasional leaflet will mention that a particular candidate is in the SWP.
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Thanks, Mark.
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Gerry Adams never mentioned his IRA membership on his litrature…oh sorry, sure he was never a member.
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Well you never mention your real name so I suppose that makes you even.
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That is my real name. Eamonn mac Dubhlinn as gaeilge.
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No doubt, but didn’t you select the name eamonn dublin to differentiate yourself from eamonn cork? Or was it the other way around?
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and you lie like Gerry Adams as well. You’d make a good couple.
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