Jun 2 2009

LOOKING LEFT, NO.1: THE IRISH PEOPLE

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Below is the first of four programmes on various left-wing publications in Ireland in the 1960s to 1980s. This one discusses the Irish People, which was the newspaper of Official Sinn Féin, later Sinn Féin the Workers Party, later The Workers Party.

On the panel are Dr. Brian Hanley, Queens University, Padraig Yeates, former editor of the Irish People, and myself.

It is hosted by Daniel Finn.

Copies of the Irish People are available here and here.

Enjoy.

Looking Left from DCTV on Vimeo.


May 3 2009

Irish People, six issues from 1978

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Below are six issues of the Irish People, the weekly newspaper of Sinn Féin the Workers Party, formerly Official Sinn Féin.

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