Irish Left Archive Podcast

Irish Left Archive

A podcast looking at Left politics in Ireland from the Irish Left Archive. We talk to activists, writers, historians, politicians and others involved in Left organisations and movements about their experiences of participating in Left parties and campaigns; Left publications and political documents they’ve been involved in; and the history and development of progressive politics in Ireland. We also look at the role of the Irish Left Archive and similar informal projects. The podcast is hosted by Ciarán Swan and Aonghus Storey.

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Irish Left Archive Podcast

Episodes (69)

Mar 31st Eugene McCartan: Communist Party of Ireland
Feb 26th INLA: Deadly Divisions, with Charles Tuba
Jan 2nd 2025 Round Up

Irish Left Archive Podcast

Mar 31, 2026
1 hour
81 MB

In this episode we talk to Eugene McCartan. Originally from Co. Down, Eugene has been an activist with the Communist Party of Ireland since joining in Dublin in 1974. He served as the party’s Chairperson from 1989 to 2001 and then General Secretary until his retirement from that role in 2023. We discuss Eugene’s background and joining the Communist Party of Ireland (CPI); the short-lived Left Alliance between the CPI, Workers’ Party and Liaison Committee of the Labour Left around that time; the history of the Communist Party of Ireland and its development since the 1920s – through key periods of the c...

Irish Left Archive Podcast

Eugene McCartan: Communist Party of Ireland

Irish Left Archive

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