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Category: Irish Social and Left History
‘… a villainous and impudent combination…’ (1760)
It having been advertised in the Dublin Courier, that two waiters of good character were wanted by a vintner in this city; now, George Cartridge and John Connolly, two waiters at Mr. Hughes’s at the Rose in Dame Street, apprehending the said Mr. Hughes to be the author of the said advertisement, thereupon not only … Continue reading ‘… a villainous and impudent combination…’ (1760)
A Plan for Political, Economic and Social Reconstruction (1932)
[Produced by an Phoblacht and published in serial form, May to October 1932] political-economic-and-social-reconstruction-an-phoblacht-1932Download
Heather Laird. Decentering the Irish Land War: women, politics and the private sphere (2013)
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Thaddeus O’Malley. The Working Man’s Bill of Rights (1848)
The Irish National Guard, 29 April 1848, Vol 1, no.2, p.6 [Note from Editor of The Irish National Guard at the start of the article]: This paper, drawn up by the workman’s tried friend, the Rev. Thaddeus O’Malley, embodies the points of the ‘Charter,’ which specially regard the workman. But it does something more and … Continue reading Thaddeus O’Malley. The Working Man’s Bill of Rights (1848)
Programme of the Knights of the Plough (1892)
( An account of the inaugural meeting of the Knights of the Plough, held in Narraghmore, Co. Kildare on Sunday 19 June 1892. The report is from the Leinster Leader, Saturday 25 June 1892, p.7. The reference to the meeting was sourced from Fintan Lane, ' Benjamin Pelin, the Knights of the Plough and Social … Continue reading Programme of the Knights of the Plough (1892)
Fenian Proclamation Of The Irish Republic (1867)
The Irish People to the World We have suffered centuries of outrage, enforced poverty, and bitter misery. Our rights and liberties have been trampled on by an alien aristocracy, who treating us as foes, usurped our lands, and drew away from our unfortunate country all material riches. The real owners of the soil were removed … Continue reading Fenian Proclamation Of The Irish Republic (1867)
Objects and Rules of the Irish Democratic Association (1850)
(Reprinted in The Irishman, 12 Jan 1850, and reproduced in Rachel O'Higgins, 'Ireland and Chartism: A study of the influence of Irishmen and the Irish Question on the Chartist Movement.' Thesis: TCD, 1959, appendix iv) Objects: 1st. The elevation of the character and condition of the working classes, so that our artisans may understand their … Continue reading Objects and Rules of the Irish Democratic Association (1850)
Manifesto of the National Labour League to the Working Men of Ireland (1887)
[No extant copy of the manifesto is known to exist. It is reproduced here from two long quotations from it that were published by the Irish Times on 14 Oct and 21 Oct 1887. The two sources have been merged below. Fintan Lane was first to rediscover the manifesto, and quoted from the 21 Oct … Continue reading Manifesto of the National Labour League to the Working Men of Ireland (1887)
‘An Alarm to the Unprejudiced and Well-Minded Protestants of Ireland: or, Seasonable Queries Upon the Rise, Danger, and Tendency, of the White-Boys’ (Cork, 1762)
Waterford, July 7. The following is the last speech and declaration of Darby Brown, Patrick Brown, David Ahern, Richard Healy, and Patrick Power, who were hanged and quartered at the county gallows, this day, being all found guilty of treason, for burning the house of John Fowloe at Monebue, near Caperquin, in the county of … Continue reading ‘An Alarm to the Unprejudiced and Well-Minded Protestants of Ireland: or, Seasonable Queries Upon the Rise, Danger, and Tendency, of the White-Boys’ (Cork, 1762)
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