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The Greens need to shout about what they have achieved so far – or suffer the fate of other small parties

Irish Independent 22 Mar 2023

Politics is “míle murder” for all small parties in Ireland ... Working backwards, ask the veterans of the Progressive Democrats; the Workers’ Party; Clann na Poblachta; and my personal favourite, Clann na Talmhan ... .

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Big read - Eamonn McCann: Power-sharing was flawed from inception… The Good Friday Agreement never envisaged the rise of the ‘other’

Belfast Telegraph 24 Sep 2022

Read More. Sam McBride . ... His mother came from what would have been considered a loyalist rural area in the Waterside ... Daily Headlines & Evening Telegraph Newsletter ... / ... Political heroes in the household were Dr Noël Browne of Clann na Poblachta whose Mother and Child Scheme brought down the first Irish inter party government in 1951 ... Read More ... / ... / ... .

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Local history: Gems from Maynooth Studies in Local History

The Irish Times 03 Sep 2022

Paul Clements admires an impressive, socially diverse tranche of short books ... He was the Labour Party's director of organisation, and went on to be a founding member of Clann na Poblachta ... Paul Clements ... He later joined the Labour Party, becoming director of organisation, and went on to be a founding member of Clann na Poblachta ... .

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Forgotten widows of the revolution: Kathleen Clarke

RTE 17 May 2022

She was among those who attended the first meeting of Cumann na mBan in April 1914, and, as president of its central branch, ran first-aid classes and rifle and signalling practice ... In 1948 she stood unsuccessfully as a Clann na Poblachta candidate for Dublin North East, after which she concentrated on her work for various humanitarian causes.

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Ireland 1922: The key figures in the new Irish Free State

BBC News 01 Jan 2022

... Béal na Bláth, and he was shot dead ... Mulcahy went on to lead the Fine Gael party, and seemed set to become taoiseach at the head of a coalition government in 1948, but one of the smaller parties, Clann na Poblachta, refused to serve under him because of his role in the executions.

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A short history of small Irish political parties with big impacts

RTE 31 Aug 2021

The 1940s heralded what Liam Weeks has described as the ‘second wave’ of minor political parties; with groupings such as Clann na Talmhan, the Monetary Reform Party, National Labour and Clann na Poblachta gaining footholds in the Dáil ... Clann na Poblachta was ...

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Green Party in right place at right time for climate action

The Irish Times 14 Aug 2021

Since the very dawn of the Irish State and throughout decades of Fianna Fail and Fine Gael electoral dominance, countless smaller parties have tried and failed to hold on to power ... the Business Men’s Party, the National Centre Party, the Monetary Reform Party, Clann Na> Talmhan, Clann Na Poblachta, the Progressive Democrats ... Climate Action Bill ... .

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A short history of colourful Irish by-elections

RTE 14 Jun 2021

Cumann na nGaedheal ... Clann na Poblachta ... Recognising that the Clann could undercut Fianna Fáil – just as Fianna Fáil had undercut Cumann na nGaedheal – de Valera called a snap general election for February 1948 to stymie the new party’s development.

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Focused Social Democrats could face defining decision at next election

The Irish Times 26 Feb 2021

The graveyard of Irish politics is littered with the tombstones of smaller parties. Most have been forgotten in the mists of time – The Farmers’ Party; Clann Éireann; Ailtirí na hAiséirghe; Clann na Poblachta; and Clann na Talmhan. In more recent years there have been others that burned brightly for a while before burning out ... .

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A Window on the Switzers – Frank McNally’s further reflections on a remarkable Irish-American

The Irish Times 29 Jan 2021

The background of Mary Elizabeth Switzer, whose life we discussed here on Thursday, was an inversion of classic Irish stereotype ... Her mother was Margaret Moore, a Catholic, from Cork ... She was also made familiar with the ideas of Connolly, Pearse, Larkin, and Con Lehane (a 1930s IRA leader and later a Clann na Poblachta TD) ... .

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Katherine Moloney: how her brother Kevin Barry's death galvanised her own activism

RTE 27 Oct 2020

College and Cumann na mBan ... After offering qualified support to Fianna Fáil throughout the 1930s, she and James agitated against the executions of republican prisoners during the Emergency, and supported the launch of Clann na Poblachta in the late 1940s.

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‘Bad girls’: State wanted to ban young women from emigrating to Britain

The Irish Times 14 Sep 2020

‘male emigration is not so serious … What is serious is the emigration of the young girls ... How best to tackle it? Despite the relatively nuanced analysis of emigration put forth a year earlier, the solution proposed here by the new Minister for External Affairs, Seán MacBride of Clann na Poblachta, was a blunter instrument with a revealing origin ... .

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‘Bad girls’: When the Irish State sought to ban emigration of young women to Britain

The Irish Times 14 Sep 2020

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In times past, it would take a few weeks - now we're set to double the last record of 70 days

Irish Independent 13 Jun 2020

Ireland's first ever coalition government back in 1948 was a mosaic of five political parties combined with half a dozen Independent TDs ... That multiplicity of coalition participants - Fine Gael, National Labour, Labour, Clann na Poblachta, Clann na Talmhan, and a motley group of six Independents - really had only two things in common ... .

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Margaret Skinnider: radical feminist, militant nationalist, trade union activist

The Irish Times 16 Mar 2020

Organisations such as Inghinidhe na hÉireann (1900), the Irish Women’s Franchise League (1908), the Irish ... Like many disillusioned teachers at the inconclusive end of that strike, she joined the new radical political party, Clann na Poblachta, becoming a senior organising member.