🎙 New episode!
We speak to two members of the Irish Anarchist Network about organising, direct action, contemporary Irish politics and countering the far-right.
In 2021, Terry Dunne joined us to discuss his political background, and his historical sociology research in the area of agrarian agitation and his podcast, Peelers and Sheep.
Colm Breathnach talked to us about his experience in the Workers Party, as a local councillor in the 1990s, the split of Democratic Left, Irish Socialist Network and his subsequent activism in Scotland.
In our first series we spoke to activist, historian and author Conor Kostick about his political experience with the Socialist Workers' Party (SWP) and more recently with Independent Left.
Allan Armstrong spoke to us about his experience on the Scottish Left, the politics of Republicanism and Internationalism from Below, and linking movements in Scotland, Ireland and across these islands.
Aileen O'Carroll spoke to us about anarchism, the Workers' Solidarity Movement, campaigning – including water charges, abortion and Repeal, Shell to Sea, Reclaim the Streets and the Dublin Grassroots Network, and approaches to political organising.
We recently launched a new joint project with Irish Election Literature to bring together political material distributed at individual protests in Ireland to see the different political strands that come together in campaigns. To introduce the Snapshots of Political Action project, we were joined by Alan Kinsella.
In 2020 we spoke to Green Party councillor, Michael Pidgeon, about his experience of political campaigning and elections with the Greens.
In December, we spoke to Orla Egan and Megan Luddy O’Leary about their book, Diary of An Activist, an illustrated memoir of social activism in the 1980s and 90s in Cork.
Jess Spear spoke to us about her political activism in the US; campaigning with Socialist Alternative in Seattle; moving to Ireland, the foundation of RISE, and decision to join PBP; and the development of Rupture magazine.
In our first series, we spoke to John Goodwillie, who has been active on the left since the Young Socialists in the 1960s. We discussed his involvement in left organising with the SWM, the Socialist Labour Party and subsequently the Green Party.
Last year, Pádraig Mannion talked to us about his political experience since joining Official Sinn Féin in the 1970s and continued activism with The Workers' Party.
We recently spoke to Vincent Doherty about his political experience since the early 1970s, through the Official Republicans, International Marxist Group (IMG), Peoples' Democracy, the National H-Block/Armagh Committee during the Hunger Strikes, Sinn Féin and independent activism.
It is 20 years today since 100,000 people marched in Dublin in opposition to the invasion of Iraq.
In episode 28, we spoke to Roger Cole of the Peace and Neutrality Alliance who was involved in organising the march.
In episode 28, we spoke to Roger Cole of the Peace and Neutrality Alliance who was involved in organising the march.
Ber Grogan talked to us about the Abortion Rights Campaign, Together for Yes and the successful campaign to repeal the eighth amendment.
Catherine Stocker of the Social Democrats spoke to us about joining and building a new political party, policy formation, working with other parties in the repeal referendum campaign, and her experience as a local councillor.
Mark Fitzpatrick joined us last year to discuss his politicisation in the anarcho-punk scene in Cork, animal rights activism, hunt sabotage and veganism.
In 2020 we discussed Queer Archival Activism with Orla Egan, founder of the Cork LGBT Archive.
In October 2020, we spoke to historian Dr. Brian Hanley, co-author of "The Lost Revolution: The Story of the Official IRA and The Workers' Party" about the history of Official Republicanism since the 1960s.
Last year Mags O’Brien spoke to us about the divorce referendum campaigns of 1986 and 1995; her experience with the Freedom Flotilla to Gaza in 2011; her work as a tutor with the SIPTU College; and Left Lives in 20th Century Ireland Vol. 4 – Women, which was published last year.
In 2020, we spoke to Lynda Walker who has been active on the left in Belfast since the late 1960s, in the Communist Party, NICRA and Trade Unionism.
In 2020, we spoke to Danny Morrison - former Sinn Féin director of publicity, editor of Republican News and An Phoblacht, spokesperson for Bobby Sands during the 1981 Hunger Strikes, and writer of several books and novels.
New episode: We talk to Éirígí activist Mickey Moran about his political experience in anti-fascism, the Revolutionary Communist Group (RCG), joining Éirígí and their campaign focus, and the centrality of Republicanism to his politics.
Irish Left Archive Podcast shared
In our most recent episode, we spoke to academic and author Michael Flavin about his novel, One Small Step, which tells the story of a young boy from a Northern Irish catholic background growing up in Birmingham in the 1970s and the impact of the 1974 Birmingham bombings.
We've just finished moving the Irish Left Archive Podcast over to Castopod. Hopefully it will be a smooth transition, but if you have any issue or spot any problems, please let us know!
Today is the 51st anniversary of Bloody Sunday.
On the 50th anniversary last year, we spoke to Dr. Brian Hanley about reactions in the Republic of Ireland to the massacre in Derry.
On the 50th anniversary last year, we spoke to Dr. Brian Hanley about reactions in the Republic of Ireland to the massacre in Derry.
In our most recent episode, we spoke to academic and author Michael Flavin about his novel, One Small Step, which tells the story of a young boy from a Northern Irish catholic background growing up in Birmingham in the 1970s and the impact of the 1974 Birmingham bombings.
We're testing Castopod as a new way to host the Irish Left Archive Podcast. All going well, hopefully we can switch over soon.