KillinSnakes
11-22-2007, 02:06 AM
Here's a Sinn Fein leaflet from 1983. at the top is Connolly and Bobby Sands.
http://cedarlounge.files.wordpress.com/2007/11/icr.pdf
an analysis by cedar lounge......
Taking a quick break from Coolacrease here, as a contrast to last weeks
Official Sinn Féin “United Irishman”, we have a leaflet from Provisional
Sinn Féin, the “Inner City Republican” issued on behalf of Christy Burke
in the Dublin Central constituency. The leaflet was donated anonymously -
for which we’re very grateful - and is from a photocopy, so apologies for
the poor reproduction quality. icr.pdf
It’s an interesting document. Some obvious points. The ‘Provisional’ is
nowhere to be seen. Perhaps the name change of Sinn Féin the Workers’
Party to the Workers’ Party the previous year had rendered it superfluous.
The masthead has a photograph of Connolly and Bobby Sands. There is a
heavy emphasis on ’socialism’ throughout. We are told in the editorial
that “there can never be social justice and independence under a
capitalist system”. Christy Burke is quoted We are treated to an interview
with the IRA which is notable for the way in which it localises its
involvement to specific areas in Dublin Central. And linked to that is a
strong anti-drugs message. Interesting to see how in 1983 there was the
claim that there was no heroin addiction in the North. The intervening
years were to bring about a different story. And that too is interesting
because the concentration remains very strongly focussed on the Inner City
and the ‘war’ and the North is mentioned only glancingly. Perhaps an
indication fo future complexities that we would see reiterated as recently
as the election this year.
One notable omission is any reference to Tony Gregory who had been elected
the previous year. This indicated interesting problems for PSF in the
constituency because Gregory had already, to some degree, soaked up the
left Republican vote by clothing it in community activist garb. And that
linked into my previous point. For PSF this was a constituency, like many
in Dublin that would be hard to ‘break’ into because there were many,
Gregory, Labour and indeed FF who had first mover advantage. One can only
marvel at the way in which Nicky Kehoe almost made it back in the last but
one election. On the other hand there was no significant WP or DL presence
here throughout the 20 odd years since unlike other constituencies, which
counterintuitively might have been a problem in the 1980s and early 1990s
but as time went on become yet another source of votes in the late 1990s
and early 2000s.
Finally, interesting to see that the fada’s are hand rendered. Them were
the days…
http://cedarlounge.wordpress.com/
http://cedarlounge.files.wordpress.com/2007/11/icr.pdf
an analysis by cedar lounge......
Taking a quick break from Coolacrease here, as a contrast to last weeks
Official Sinn Féin “United Irishman”, we have a leaflet from Provisional
Sinn Féin, the “Inner City Republican” issued on behalf of Christy Burke
in the Dublin Central constituency. The leaflet was donated anonymously -
for which we’re very grateful - and is from a photocopy, so apologies for
the poor reproduction quality. icr.pdf
It’s an interesting document. Some obvious points. The ‘Provisional’ is
nowhere to be seen. Perhaps the name change of Sinn Féin the Workers’
Party to the Workers’ Party the previous year had rendered it superfluous.
The masthead has a photograph of Connolly and Bobby Sands. There is a
heavy emphasis on ’socialism’ throughout. We are told in the editorial
that “there can never be social justice and independence under a
capitalist system”. Christy Burke is quoted We are treated to an interview
with the IRA which is notable for the way in which it localises its
involvement to specific areas in Dublin Central. And linked to that is a
strong anti-drugs message. Interesting to see how in 1983 there was the
claim that there was no heroin addiction in the North. The intervening
years were to bring about a different story. And that too is interesting
because the concentration remains very strongly focussed on the Inner City
and the ‘war’ and the North is mentioned only glancingly. Perhaps an
indication fo future complexities that we would see reiterated as recently
as the election this year.
One notable omission is any reference to Tony Gregory who had been elected
the previous year. This indicated interesting problems for PSF in the
constituency because Gregory had already, to some degree, soaked up the
left Republican vote by clothing it in community activist garb. And that
linked into my previous point. For PSF this was a constituency, like many
in Dublin that would be hard to ‘break’ into because there were many,
Gregory, Labour and indeed FF who had first mover advantage. One can only
marvel at the way in which Nicky Kehoe almost made it back in the last but
one election. On the other hand there was no significant WP or DL presence
here throughout the 20 odd years since unlike other constituencies, which
counterintuitively might have been a problem in the 1980s and early 1990s
but as time went on become yet another source of votes in the late 1990s
and early 2000s.
Finally, interesting to see that the fada’s are hand rendered. Them were
the days…
http://cedarlounge.wordpress.com/