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Democratic Left was a socialist political party active primsrily in the Republic of Ireland, but also in Northern Ireland between 1992 and 1999. It came into being after a split with The Workers Party and, after just seven years in existence, it merged into the Irish Labour Party. Socialism is a social and economic system (or the political philosophy advocating such a system) in which the economic means of production are owned and controlled collectively by the people. ...
Northern Ireland is a part of the United Kingdom lying in the northeast of the island of Ireland, covering 5,459 square miles (14,139 km², about a sixth of the islands total area). ...
Year 1992 (MCMXCII) was a leap year starting on Wednesday (link will display full 1992 Gregorian calendar). ...
Year 1999 (MCMXCIX) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display full 1999 Gregorian calendar). ...
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Logo of the Irish Labour Party The Irish Labour Party (Irish: Páirti an Lucht Oibre) is the third largest political party in the Republic of Ireland. ...
Origins
Democratic Left was formed after a split in the Workers Party, which in turn had its origins in the 1970 split between Official Sinn Féin and Provisional Sinn Féin. A large proportion of the Workers Party left the party in 1992 after their attempt to amend its constitution (to break all links with the Official IRA and modernise the party's Leninist structures) fell just short of the required two-thirds majority at a special congress. The members who left included the party leader Proinsias De Rossa and five more of the party's seven members of Dáil Éireann (the lower house of the Oireachtas or Irish parliament). The new party they established was provisionally named New Agenda until its founding conference adopted the name Democratic Left. Proinsias De Rossa became leader of the new party. Categories: Ireland-related stubs | Irish political parties | Republic of Ireland political parties | Northern Ireland political parties ...
1970 (MCMLXX) was a common year starting on Thursday. ...
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Provisional Sinn Féin is an Irish republican political party which evolved from the split in Sinn Féin and the IRA that took place in the late 1960s. ...
The term Official Irish Republican Army or Official IRA refers to one of the two organisations - the other being the Provisional Irish Republican Army - that emerged from the split in the then Irish Republican Army in 1969-70. ...
Vladimir Lenin in 1920 Leninism is a political and economic theory which builds upon Marxism; it is a branch of Marxism (and it has been the dominant branch of Marxism in the world since the 1920s). ...
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The Dáil Chamber Dáil Éireann (pronounced ) is the lower house of the Oireachtas (parliament) of the Republic of Ireland. ...
The Oireachtas is the National Parliament of the Republic of Ireland. ...
Electoral history and participation in government In the 1992 general election the party lost two of its six Dáil seats, gaining 2.8% of the vote compared to 5% for the pre-split Workers Party in the preceding general election. It subsequently won two seats in by-elections. A general election is an election in which all or most members of a given political body are up for election. ...
A by-election or bye-election is a special election held to fill a political office when the incumbent has died or resigned. ...
After the collapse of the Fianna Fáil-Labour Party coalition government in 1994, Democratic Left joined the new coalition government with Fine Gael and the Labour Party. Proinsias De Rossa served as Minister for Social Welfare, initiating Ireland's first national anti-poverty strategy. Fianna Fáil - The Republican Party (Irish: Fianna Fáil - An Páirtà Poblachtánach), commonly referred to as Fianna Fáil (IPA ; traditionally translated by the party into English as Soldiers of Destiny, though the actual meaning is Soldiers [Fianna] of Ireland[1]), is currently the largest political party...
Logo of the Irish Labour Party The Irish Labour Party (Irish: Páirti an Lucht Oibre) is the third largest political party in the Republic of Ireland. ...
1994 (MCMXCIV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated as the International Year of the Family and the International Year of the Sport and the Olympic Ideal by United Nations. ...
Fine Gael (IPA: , though often anglicised to ) (approximate English translation: Family or Tribe of the Irish) and officially, Fine Gael - The United Ireland Party, is the second largest political party in the Republic of Ireland, presently forming the largest opposition party in the Dail (Irish Parliament), and claims a membership...
The Minister for Social & Family Affairs is the chief person at the Department of Social & Family Affairs in the Irish Government. ...
Merger with Labour In the 1997 general election Democratic Left lost two of its six seats, gaining 2.5% of the vote. In 1999, the Democratic Left merged with the Labour Party. Labour Party leader Ruairí Quinn became leader of the unified party, while De Rossa took up the largely titular position of party president. In 1999 De Rossa successfully contested the European Parliament election in Dublin. He held his Dáil seat until 2002, but did not stand for reelection that year. He successfully held his European Parliament seat in 2004. 1997 (MCMXCVII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
Ruairi Quinn (born 1946) is an Irish politician. ...
Year 1999 (MCMXCIX) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display full 1999 Gregorian calendar). ...
Established 1952, as the Common Assembly President Hans-Gert Pöttering (EPP) Since 16 January 2007 Vice-Presidents 14 Political parties 8 Committees 22 Last election June 2004 (785 MEPs) Meeting place Brussels and Strasbourg Secretariat Luxembourg and Brussels Website europarl. ...
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Former Democratic Left TDs Pat Rabbitte and Liz McManus were elected as Labour Party leader and deputy leader respectively in 2002. Of the 20 Labour Party TDs currently in the Dáil, 4 (Rabbitte, McManus, Eamon Gilmore and Kathleen Lynch) are former members of the Democratic Left. A Teachta Dála (Irish for Dáil Deputy, pronounced chock-ta dawla) is a member of Dáil Éireann, the lower chamber of the Irish Oireachtas or National Parliament. ...
Pat Rabbitte (born May 18, 1949) is a senior Irish politician, who has been the leader of the Labour Party since 2002. ...
(Elizabeth) Liz McManus (born 1947) is an Irish Labour Party politician. ...
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Eamon Gilmore (born 1955) is an Irish Labour Party politician. ...
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See also - Category:Irish Democratic Left Party politicians
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