The Starry Plough (magazine)

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The Starry Plough
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1476-296X
Websiteirsp.ie/newsletter/
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The Starry Plough (Irish: An Camchéachta) is the official newsletter (initially a newspaper, then a magazine) of the Irish Republican Socialist Party. In 2006 it proclaimed on its website that "The Starry Plough is the only paper that stands firmly against British rule and for the destruction of capitalism in Ireland."[1] The paper also focuses on socialist solidarity issues around the world.

History

The name of the paper is taken from the

Official Sinn Féin in Derry, it was edited by Jackie Ward (who went on to edit The United Irishman)[3]
and Joe Sweeney (who sided with the IRSP following the split with the Officials). The suggestion for the IRSP newspaper was made by Derry members to the IRSP Ard Comhairle in early 1975. The Irish translation An Camchéachta was provided by Mairin Bean Ui Chionnaith, an Irish-language scholar and republican.

The first edition of the new (IRSP) The Starry Plough was published in April 1975 under the editorship of Mick Ahern. It included details of the first IRSP public meeting (Dublin, 12 February), an editorial on the IRSP, an interview with Seamus Costello, Easter Rising commemoration notices and a statement from the National Executive of the IRSP.[4]

Subsequent editors included Osgur Breatnach, James Daly, Mary Reid,

Bernadette McAliskey, Tom Hayes, Ite Ni Chionnaith, Eamonn McCann, Niall Leonach, Redmond O'Hanlon, Gerry Lawless, Siobhan Molloy, and London SWP cartoonist Phil Evans.[5]

References

  1. ^ "Starry Plough - An Camchéachta". Archived from the original on 9 July 2006. Retrieved 1 August 2006.
  2. ^ "The Starry Plough (Derry)". Irish Left Archive. Archived from the original on 26 September 2015. Retrieved 25 September 2015.
  3. ISBN 1-84488-120-2
  4. ^ "The Starry Plough". Irish Republican Socialist Party. April 1975. Archived from the original on 25 September 2015. Retrieved 25 September 2015.
  5. ^ "Freedom Struggle, Vol. 1, No. 1". Irish Left Archive. 9 April 2012. Archived from the original on 25 September 2015. Retrieved 25 September 2015.

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