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The Irish Left Archive is "an online archive of materials relating to Irish left politics, freely accessible and easy to download and reproduce" (its home page; maryleelabor record), intended from its start for "documents, leaflets, pamphlets, posters and newspapers from the latter half of the 20th century placed online in PDF format" (its About page), a "Digital collection of political material from the Irish Left" on its Mastodon profile (mastodon.online), known also as the Digital Archive of Irish Left Politics, the ILA and the CLR Irish Left Archive (maryleelabor record). The maryleelabor record asks of it the census's question, "Whose record does it keep, who holds it, and does it keep the losing side in a form that could be taken up later?", places it in three areas, movement and party documents ("programmes, polemics, internal bulletins, periodicals, the record of splits"), archives and custody ("collections of papers and records of labor and the left, held for later readers") and labor action, with movement documents and periodical runs as its evidence, and tags it "NOT the archive of one party: it holds documents of hundreds of organisations side by side" (maryleelabor record).
"In 2007 the Cedar Lounge Revolution decided to initiate and host the Irish Left Online Document Archive" (About page); its home page says it "was initiated by the Cedar Lounge Revolution" and carries the blog's latest posts, and documents "continue to be posted to the CLR where the regular discussions have been invaluable in contextualising the materials and providing corrections" (home page; About page). In 2013, at "about 300 documents", it was given a database website, which its curators hoped would make gaps in its coverage easier to identify and draw donations and corrections (About page). "The ILA was started by Ciarán Swan and the website was created by Aonghus Storey, who both maintain the project as co-curators" (About page), and the two host its podcast (Spotify); the maryleelabor record, whose About source answered 404 at /about/ and /about, gives the operator as "not named beyond its origin", with podcast episodes and commentary "posted by Aonrud" (maryleelabor record; home page).
Its rationale is "an informal but reasonably comprehensive history of the Irish left", and, "perhaps most importantly", a "general historical resource, open to all irrespective of political position": "The Archive is not linked to any political party, and no judgement is made, beyond points regarding quality of production, on these documents in the accompanying texts" (About page). The maryleelabor record reads the holder as "an independent online archive outside any of the organisations it keeps", the archive itself, freely accessible, with content submitted "through a Content Submissions route" (maryleelabor record), and the Copyright page states the terms of holding: a resource "open to all" that aims to hold its materials "without compromising the ownership or original intent" of them (Copyright page). The Copyright page holds that the documents were "intended for widespread dissemination", that reproducing them is "in the spirit of their original production", and that "other than to scan and digitize them, we do not modify the original materials"; it is "confident" its reproduction "constitutes fair use", identifies "the organisation and the named contributors for each document" because ownership of informally produced material may lie with contributors "often un-attributed or pseudonymous", leaves copyright "with the original authors", and asks that re-use attribute the ILA "as well as the original authors" (Copyright page); the maryleelabor record, which did not save the page, gives the license as "not stated in the saved text" (maryleelabor record).
Its scope is "materials from all on the left", from socialist and Marxist to anarchist, feminist, trade union and "left and progressive Unionist voices", with "interesting or progressive noises from Fine Gael or Fianna Fáil" and reflections on the Irish left from other positions in and outside Ireland (About page). On 31 October 2026 it held 1231 documents from 436 organisations, 47 internationals, 217 publications and 875 people, with 20 demonstrations, 10 collections and 12 articles (home page; maryleelabor record), its unit a dated document "attributed to the organisation that issued it" (maryleelabor record); its curators state that it "now includes at least some sample materials from the major political formations on the island" and that "large gaps still remain both chronologically and in terms of individual groups or formations" (About page), and the record lists "how complete any organisation's run of documents is" among what it does not answer (maryleelabor record). An interactive timeline records "Irish Left organisations and parties from 1900 to the present" (home page), the home page's documents running from 1967 to 2026 (maryleelabor record), and the archive is searched by section and by years (home page; maryleelabor record).
Its home page sets rival organisations' documents side by side under their issuers' names, the Communist Party of Ireland's Irish Socialist of 1973 beside the Socialist Workers' Party's Socialist Worker of 2001, and keeps small and splinter organisations' records current, a joint statement of the Irish Republican Socialist Party with The Leninist group (CPGB), the record of the Communist Party of Great Britain (Provisional Central Committee) updated on 26 October 2026 (home page); the maryleelabor record says it keeps "the documents of Irish left organisations, parties and campaigns, and of British left groups writing on Ireland, as their issuers published them", that "it keeps rival organisations' documents side by side under their own names", and that "The saved text does not describe splits or expulsions as a category" (maryleelabor record). Its collection The British Left on Ireland "shows some of the positions taken by the British left over the course of the last several decades" (home page), answering, in the record's terms, "what positions British left groups took on Ireland, in their own documents" (maryleelabor record). The Capture Registry reads the holdings at their grain, "The archive keeps every organisation of a fissile left, its rival parties included, on one record and one timeline" (Capture Registry, 2026-10-31), and the curators state that "large gaps still remain" in individual groups or formations (About page).
Ils ne sont pas marxistes (#1725) finds in the left's case record "abundant conflict and very few mechanisms that carry a defeated critique forward into the organization's next form", the critique "settled by vote, verdict or decree, with the losing position carried into nothing that follows", and exit the only remaining move "Where a minority is denied its own public organ" (#1725). #1725 states the condition of synthesis, a defeated critique that kept "an organ in which it could keep being stated, a holder with standing independent of the executive, and a route by which the majority could later adopt it without calling that adoption surrender": the SPD "condemned the critique without expelling the critic, and the critique kept its organ", and in the New Left critics with "a caucus, collective, journal or paper" developed the critique "until the wider left took it up", sublation appearing across a movement over decades and "outside the bodies that generated the critique" (#1725). The maryleelabor record reads the Irish Left Archive "as an organ in #1725's sense at the scale of a national left: it keeps defeated and splinter organisations' documents under their own names next to their rivals', with a timeline of the organisations and participants' own accounts, so a position can be read later in its own words" (maryleelabor record). Where a dispute concerns a group's identity, #1725 holds, "a split is the honest outcome, and the question becomes whether the split is recorded and argued or simply enacted" (#1725); the record lists "how a dispute between organisations was settled, beyond what their documents say" among what the archive does not answer, and tags it "NOT a record of membership or votes" (maryleelabor record). #1725 states its own limit, that "no cross-organization dataset of left splits, or of minority positions later adopted, was found for any period" and that the pattern's "frequency across the left as a whole is unmeasured", and it places "Accumulated critical capacity" in "archives, in libraries and in the weights of models", where "Under narrowing, no sequence of small corrections reaches standing for it" (#1725).
Its collections include the Wood Quay protests of 1978 and 1979 and the Hunger Strikes of 1980/1, and Snapshots of Political Action, "A project from Irish Election Literature and the Irish Left Archive", holds "Documents from demonstrations" (home page; maryleelabor record), which the record tags "NOT a counted dataset of protests: its demonstrations section holds documents from 20 demonstrations" (maryleelabor record). It "hopes to collate first-hand political reminiscences or observations from people involved in Irish Left political activity over the years" and asks for them, and its comments carry participants' own testimony, "I was one of the 5 who produced Focalín" (home page); the record states that "the personal accounts depend on contribution" and gives the method as "submitted materials (Content Submissions) and personal accounts invited from participants" with "comments open on records" (maryleelabor record).
It takes "submissions of any materials that seem relevant to the scope of the archive, either in physical or digital form", adds them "on a weekly basis" after "scanning, reading and writing the accompanying commentaries", asks to be told where a file was posted before because it is "keen to credit others’ work", and states that donations "have been crucial to keeping the project active", its donors including pseudonymous and anonymous givers and organisations such as the Irish Communist Party, the Irish Socialist Network, the Socialist Party and the Workers' Party (Content Submissions); its 2025 round-up thanks those who sent documents, spoke on the podcast, emailed, commented and used the site (Spotify).
The Irish Left Archive Podcast, hosted by Ciarán Swan and Aonghus Storey, talks to "activists, writers, historians, politicians and others involved in Left organisations and movements" and looks at "the role of the Irish Left Archive and similar informal projects" (Spotify; Pocket Casts); Pocket Casts lists it as a "Monthly podcast" and counts 71 episodes beside S7 E72, and the home page gives episode 72 on 30 October 2026, posted by Aonrud (Pocket Casts; home page). Its Mastodon account, its website link verified to leftarchive.ie, opened in May 2021 and last posted on 2 January 2023 (mastodon.online).
Its records were updated on 26 and 23 October 2026, and the former address clririshleftarchive.org redirects to leftarchive.ie (home page; maryleelabor record). Wikipedia has no article on it, and 32 Wikipedia articles carry its name, the Look Left article noting that "The Irish Left Archive holds a March 2009 issue" (Wikipedia); Saothar, the journal of the Irish Labour History Society, carried an article on it in its 50th anniversary edition (Spotify). The maryleelabor record says it answers "what a named Irish left organisation published, in its own documents, and when" (maryleelabor record).
At its own name, "the census name; NEW address", the Overview cited "Four cards: the archive, Spotify, Pocket Casts, mastodon.online", and the Capture Registry reads it as giving "its holdings, its timeline of organisations, its personal accounts and its podcast", "Faithful at the level of holdings and features", with "ITS ORIGIN IN THE CEDAR LOUNGE REVOLUTION NOT CARRIED" (Capture Registry, 2026-10-31). The registry finds "The archive's founding by a left blog's community, which is who holds the record, is absent", the composition naming "the podcast's hosts and no holder of the archive", "no holder named" (Capture Registry, 2026-10-31); the hosts it names are the co-curators who started the archive and built its website (About page). #1725 reads the composing layer's ending of a dispute "by omission, balance or verdict", in which, as in the organisations' endings, "the losing position reaches no later form in which it could be answered", and holds the left's lost capacity for internal critique and "the mediation layer's smooth surface" to be "one incapacity at two scales" (#1725).
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maryleelabor record).
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The paste is the Overview expanded (the 'AI Mode Conversation' view).] The 'You said' line carries the query twice, run together, and is given once here. Inline links are Google redirect URLs, kept as pasted. [QUERENT] Irish Left Archive [SYSTEM] The Irish Left Archive is a digital project and online repository dedicated to collecting, preserving, and sharing material related to left-wing politics, activism, and history in Ireland. [[1](https://www.google.com/goto?url=CAESUwHrOzAVhISG8tU8-6XR42Lg9WvH0Sot3e_hMBz7h7n3MXrGnedWvtn3d4x9aJ5CkNVMJMk1ayDG36HSftjP9bfjCwZIXPKvSn9zMqbk1fZLn8MG)] Key Features of the Archive * Digital Collection: Freely accessible documents, manifestos, pamphlets, and publications from various Irish left-wing and progressive organizations. [[1](https://www.google.com/goto?url=CAESUwHrOzAVhISG8tU8-6XR42Lg9WvH0Sot3e_hMBz7h7n3MXrGnedWvtn3d4x9aJ5CkNVMJMk1ayDG36HSftjP9bfjCwZIXPKvSn9zMqbk1fZLn8MG)] * Timeline of the Irish Left: An interactive timeline tracking Irish left organizations and parties from 1900 to the present. [[1](https://www.google.com/goto?url=CAESUwHrOzAVhISG8tU8-6XR42Lg9WvH0Sot3e_hMBz7h7n3MXrGnedWvtn3d4x9aJ5CkNVMJMk1ayDG36HSftjP9bfjCwZIXPKvSn9zMqbk1fZLn8MG)] * Scope & Contents: Holds over 1,200 documents, hundreds of organizations, publications, profiles, and collections covering socialism, communism, trade unionism, republicanism, and-anarchism. [[1](https://www.google.com/goto?url=CAESXAHrOzAV0YzierbyRCOqgpKgVdrtiwvx9cWdkpOdUWvky4UkDgpN1fRsLcVSEywi2bFFE--vQK_ma0C6Ekaq4zpzDKbq1j_-FMw4Fe1aVryBb4UqRK2wU5VOMA2-), [2](https://www.google.com/goto?url=CAESUwHrOzAVhISG8tU8-6XR42Lg9WvH0Sot3e_hMBz7h7n3MXrGnedWvtn3d4x9aJ5CkNVMJMk1ayDG36HSftjP9bfjCwZIXPKvSn9zMqbk1fZLn8MG)] * Personal Accounts: Collects first-hand observations and reminiscences from activists and participants in Irish left movements. [[1](https://www.google.com/goto?url=CAESUwHrOzAVhISG8tU8-6XR42Lg9WvH0Sot3e_hMBz7h7n3MXrGnedWvtn3d4x9aJ5CkNVMJMk1ayDG36HSftjP9bfjCwZIXPKvSn9zMqbk1fZLn8MG)] The Irish Left Archive Podcast Hosted by Ciarán Swan and Aonghus Storey, the project also produces a regular podcast featuring interviews with activists, writers, historians, and politicians discussing left-wing movements, campaigns, and political history in Ireland. [[1](https://www.google.com/goto?url=CAESlwEB6zswFQlgEmaAg93o3cK8J3BJ-c12O4Z4nAVMLnZujRC2m-IB0auRBKfuFGewkKJqxYPRwIPr14di3zSJko7vfEdLGb_qilfD3qMBwiwYM5BfnIsYQMAYmp5m2KMwP6_iHFtWRUiYAxl7T0Uw0LEJSQWWQmnjUFLGES7z0uUtxmbul2xTG_O_mJ3J28F4m39Gd59WDJZJ)] You can explore the digital collection, timelines, and recent updates directly on the [Irish Left Archive Website](https://www.google.com/goto?url=CAESUwHrOzAVhISG8tU8-6XR42Lg9WvH0Sot3e_hMBz7h7n3MXrGnedWvtn3d4x9aJ5CkNVMJMk1ayDG36HSftjP9bfjCwZIXPKvSn9zMqbk1fZLn8MG) or listen to episodes via the [Irish Left Archive Podcast on Spotify](https://www.google.com/goto?url=CAESbAHrOzAVbotIvJ4T0AEf2woM8nDrZBA6MIhSXsBiHXIjdtIPZIhuz0zsb2CXvOQKhkmSEDWFTUfpIkNMBQcDTB7ev6jBpc0WQmgi3Ck9IkLH6DSleXq9waQGdOaJmj7yMYQNd6aNbYQduP_iuA). [[1](https://www.google.com/goto?url=CAESbAHrOzAVbotIvJ4T0AEf2woM8nDrZBA6MIhSXsBiHXIjdtIPZIhuz0zsb2CXvOQKhkmSEDWFTUfpIkNMBQcDTB7ev6jBpc0WQmgi3Ck9IkLH6DSleXq9waQGdOaJmj7yMYQNd6aNbYQduP_iuA), [2](https://www.google.com/goto?url=CAESUwHrOzAVhISG8tU8-6XR42Lg9WvH0Sot3e_hMBz7h7n3MXrGnedWvtn3d4x9aJ5CkNVMJMk1ayDG36HSftjP9bfjCwZIXPKvSn9zMqbk1fZLn8MG)] Irish Left Archive Irish Left Archive — Digital archive of Irish left politics The Irish Left Archive is an online archive of materials relating to Irish left politics, freely accessible and easy to download and reproduce. The Irish Left A... Spotify Irish Left Archive Podcast | Podcast on Spotify Episodes: Newshound with John Fay (curated news 1996–2018); Eugene McCartan (Communist Party of Ireland history); INLA Deadly Divisions with Charles Tuba; 2005 ... Pocket Casts Irish Left Archive Podcast - Pocket Casts Irish Left Archive. podcast.leftarchive.ie/@ILAPodcast. Monthly podcast. Read More. A podcast looking at Left politics in Ireland from the Irish Left Archive. W... mastodon.online Irish Left Archive (@LeftArchive@mastodon.online) Jan 2, 2023 — 423 Posts, 485 Following, 11 Followers · Digital collection of political material from the Irish Left. #fedi22 #Ireland #Politics #History #Communism #Socialism... AI responses may include mistakes. [Learn more](https://support.google.com/websearch?p=ai_overviews)
The Irish Left Archive, begun in 2007 when the Cedar Lounge Revolution decided "to initiate and host the Irish Left Online Document Archive", is an online archive of Irish left politics, freely accessible, its documents easy to download and reproduce (About page; home page). Started by Ciarán Swan, with a website created by Aonghus Storey, who maintain it as co-curators, it gained a database website in 2013 at about 300 documents, while documents continue to be posted and discussed on the CLR (About page; home page). It is meant as an informal but reasonably comprehensive history of the Irish left and a general historical resource open to all irrespective of political position, linked to no party and passing no judgement on its documents (About page).
Its scope is all of the left, from socialist and Marxist to anarchist, feminist, trade union and progressive unionist voices, with progressive material from Fine Gael or Fianna Fáil and reflections on the Irish left from elsewhere (About page; Mastodon profile). It holds 1231 documents from 436 organisations, 217 publications and 875 people, with a timeline of organisations and parties from 1900 and search by section and years, and its curators state that large gaps remain in time and in individual formations, the site meant to make them easier to see (home page; About page). Rival organisations' documents stand side by side under their issuers' names, the Communist Party of Ireland beside the Socialist Workers' Party, small and splinter groups' records updated in October 2026, with a collection of the British left's positions on Ireland (home page). Collections cover Wood Quay and the Hunger Strikes, and Snapshots of Political Action, with Irish Election Literature, holds documents from demonstrations (home page). It hopes to collate participants' first-hand accounts, and its comments carry testimony from those who made the documents (home page).
Material arrives by submission, physical or digital, and is added weekly after scanning, reading and commentary; donations, some pseudonymous or anonymous and some from parties, keep it active, and it asks to be told of earlier postings so as to credit others' work (Content Submissions; Spotify). It reproduces documents made for dissemination without modifying them, holds this to be fair use, identifies each document by its organisation and named contributors, leaves copyright with the authors and asks that re-use credit the ILA and the authors (Copyright page).
Its podcast, monthly and hosted by the two curators, interviews people from Left parties, campaigns and publications and looks at the role of informal archives, reaching episode 72 on 30 October 2026 (Spotify; Pocket Casts; home page). Its Mastodon account, verified to the site, last posted on 2 January 2023 (mastodon.online). Wikipedia has no article on it, though 32 articles carry its name, Look Left's citing a 2009 issue it holds, and Saothar 50 carried an article on it (Wikipedia; Spotify).
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Latest Updates documented · fieldF12 Irish Left Archive — Irish Left Archive — Digital archive of Irish left politics, Latest Updates documented · fieldF7 Irish Left Archive — Irish Left Archive — Digital archive of Irish left politics, Collections: The British Left on Ireland documented · fieldF8 Irish Left Archive — Irish Left Archive — Digital archive of Irish left politics, Collections documented · fieldF9 Irish Left Archive — Irish Left Archive — Digital archive of Irish left politics, Snapshots of Political Action documented · fieldF10 Irish Left Archive — Irish Left Archive — Digital archive of Irish left politics, Personal Accounts documented · fieldF11 Irish Left Archive — Irish Left Archive — Digital archive of Irish left politics, Latest Comments documented · fieldF33 leftarchive.ie — Content Submissions, ¶1 documented · fieldF34 leftarchive.ie — Content Submissions, ¶3 documented · fieldF35 leftarchive.ie — Content Submissions, ¶4 documented · fieldF36 leftarchive.ie — Content Submissions, Acknowledgements documented · fieldF37 leftarchive.ie — Content Submissions, Acknowledgements documented · fieldF40 Spotify — Irish Left Archive Podcast | Podcast on Spotify, episode: 2025 Round Up documented · fieldF27 leftarchive.ie — Copyright: Archive materials and their ownership, ¶1 documented · fieldF28 leftarchive.ie — Copyright: Archive materials and their ownership, ¶2 documented · fieldF29 leftarchive.ie — Copyright: Archive materials and their ownership, ¶3 documented · fieldF30 leftarchive.ie — Copyright: Archive materials and their ownership, ¶4 documented · fieldF31 leftarchive.ie — Copyright: Archive materials and their ownership, ¶5 documented · fieldF32 leftarchive.ie — Copyright: Archive materials and their ownership, ¶6 documented · fieldF38 Spotify — Irish Left Archive Podcast | Podcast on Spotify, show description documented · fieldF39 Spotify — Irish Left Archive Podcast | Podcast on Spotify, show description documented · fieldF42 Pocket Casts — Irish Left Archive Podcast - Pocket Casts, podcast header documented · fieldF43 Pocket Casts — Irish Left Archive Podcast - Pocket Casts, episode list documented · fieldF13 Irish Left Archive — Irish Left Archive — Digital archive of Irish left politics, Irish Left Archive Podcast; Latest on the CLR documented · fieldF45 mastodon.online — Irish Left Archive (@LeftArchive@mastodon.online), account lookup (B4-api.txt) documented · fieldF46 mastodon.online — Irish Left Archive (@LeftArchive@mastodon.online), account lookup (B4-api.txt), profile fields documented · fieldF47 Wikipedia — Irish Left Archive (no article), the article title (B8.txt) documented · fieldF48 Wikipedia — Irish Left Archive (no article), full-text search (B8.txt) documented · fieldF49 Wikipedia — Irish Left Archive (no article), search snippet: Look Left (Ireland) (B8.txt) documented · fieldF41 Spotify — Irish Left Archive Podcast | Podcast on Spotify, episode: 2025 Round Up documented · fieldIrish Left Archive is an online archive of Irish left politics, begun in 2007 by the Cedar Lounge Revolution and kept by co-curators Ciarán Swan and Aonghus Storey, open to all and linked to no party (its pages).
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register entry irish-left-archive-aio-20261031 · file as first run
E_A, the archive's entity: the same archive, in the maryleelabor census record and the archive's deposits: an online archive of Irish left politics in the areas of movement and party documents, the record of splits among them, archives and custody, and labor action, whose unit is a dated document attributed to the organisation that issued it; it keeps the organisations' documents as their issuers published them and rival organisations' documents side by side under their own names, held by an independent online archive outside any of the organisations it keeps; read by the archive as an organ in #1725's sense at the scale of a national left, so a position can be read later in its own words; #1725's condition for a defeated critique's later uptake, an organ, a holder independent of the executive and a route, and its limits, that splits are no category of the saved record and that no cross-organisation dataset of left splits was found; whose composition at its own name gives its holdings and leaves out its founding by a left blog's community, who holds the record (Capture Registry, 2026-10-31)
E_F, the field's entity (type C — a conventional reading holds it (public entity: an independent online archive of the documents of Irish left organisations, with a podcast)): the online archive of materials relating to Irish left politics, freely accessible and easy to download and reproduce, initiated in 2007 by the Cedar Lounge Revolution blog as the Irish Left Online Document Archive and given a database website in 2013 at about 300 documents, started by Ciarán Swan with its website created by Aonghus Storey, who maintain it as co-curators; a general historical resource open to all irrespective of political position, linked to no party, whose scope is all on the left and beyond it, with large gaps stated; holding 1231 documents of 436 organisations, rival and splinter organisations side by side under their issuers' names, a timeline of organisations from 1900, collections, documents from demonstrations and participants' accounts; built from donations added weekly with commentary and discussed on the CLR; reproducing documents as fair use, copyright with the authors, each document identified by its organisation and named contributors; with a monthly podcast hosted by the curators, a Mastodon account silent since January 2023, no Wikipedia article and 32 articles that carry its name
ρ = extends: The archive reads the Irish Left Archive as its own pages present it and adds, on the field's own object: the census's question of whose record it keeps, who holds it and whether the losing side is kept; the reading of its side-by-side documents as the losing side kept under its own names and of the archive as an organ in #1725's sense, held outside the organisations it keeps; #1725's condition (organ, holder, route) and its limits (splits no category of the record; no cross-organisation dataset of splits); and the composition layer's omission, at its name, of its founding by a left blog's community. . Guard: ρ = extends claims an addition and no more (§1.2a): the field's entity stands as its pages give it; where an archive claim meets a field claim on one point (ML-03 against F26; CAP-1-06 against F18), both are composed under P_coh in one ontology.
The case: equal terms, ontology included (v0.9). The archive reads the field's entity as the entity. The maryleelabor census record describes the Irish Left Archive from its home page, each field with its basis ('operator'), and answers for it the census's question of whose record it keeps, who holds it and whether it keeps the losing side; its readings of its own (record, ml_reading) take the archive's own practice, rival organisations' documents side by side under their own names, and read it as an organ in #1725's sense. #1725 names no Irish archive; its categories (the organ, the holder independent of the executive, the route, the losing position carried into nothing, the split recorded and argued or simply enacted) apply to the classes the field and the census source for the entity and add senses and limits on the field's own object. No defining paper contests the field's ontology of the entity or supplies one the field lacks: ρ = extends, the equal-terms case (§0.9, §1.2a).
| field claims | received | receiving text | translation | archive |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| F1, F17, F44 | F1 (B1, opening): "The Irish Left Archive is an online archive of materials relating to Irish left politics , freely accessible and easy to download and reproduce ."; F17 (B5, ¶1): "This was intended to be an online archive of materials relating to the Irish left with documents, leaflets, pamphlets, posters and newspapers from the latter half of the 20th century placed online in PDF format, freely accessible and easily downloadable and reproducible for those who are interested."; F44 (B4, profile (meta description)): "Digital collection of political material from the Irish Left." | — | untranslated: composed as received beside ML-01, ML-02 | ML-01, ML-02 |
| F2, F14, F16 | F2 (B1, opening): "It was initiated by the Cedar Lounge Revolution ."; F14 (B1, Latest on the CLR): "Latest on the CLR What you see now and what people saw fifty years ago By: WorldbyStorm | Sat, 31 Oct 2026 10:14:00"; F16 (B5, ¶1): "In 2007 the Cedar Lounge Revolution decided to initiate and host the Irish Left Online Document Archive." | — | untranslated: composed as received beside CAP-1-01, CAP-1-05, CAP-1-07 | CAP-1-01, CAP-1-05, CAP-1-07 |
| F19 | F19 (B5, ¶3): "In 2013 the Irish Left Archive had grown to encompass about 300 documents and it was decided to create a new database website to make the work that went into the archive more accessible." | — | untranslated: composed as received | |
| F20 | F20 (B5, ¶3): "documents continue to be posted to the CLR where the regular discussions have been invaluable in contextualising the materials and providing corrections." | — | untranslated: composed as received | |
| F26 | F26 (B5, ¶7): "The ILA was started by Ciarán Swan and the website was created by Aonghus Storey, who both maintain the project as co-curators." | — | untranslated: composed as received beside ML-03, ML-28, CAP-1-05, CAP-1-07 | ML-03, ML-28, CAP-1-05, CAP-1-07 |
| F22, F23, F27 | F22 (B5, ¶4): "The rationale for the Archive is quite straightforward. Firstly it’s a good way for developing an informal but reasonably comprehensive history of the Irish left."; F23 (B5, ¶5): "But perhaps most importantly this is intended as a general historical resource, open to all irrespective of political position. The Archive is not linked to any political party, and no judgement is made, beyond points regarding quality of production, on these documents in the accompanying texts."; F27 (B6, ¶1): "The Irish Left Archive is provided as a general historical resource, open to all. We aim to do so without compromising the ownership or original intent of the materials contained in it." | — | untranslated: composed as received beside ML-08, ML-21, ML-20 | ML-08, ML-21, ML-20 |
| F28, F29, F30, F31, F32, F35 | F28 (B6, ¶2): "In the majority of cases, the documents and posters we reproduce were intended for widespread dissemination, as a means to expose people to the ideas expressed in them, or to further awareness of the organisation which produced them. As a result, we believe our reproduction of them is in the spirit of their original production, rather than prejudicing the interests of the copyright holders. Further, other than to scan and digitize them, we do not modify the original materials."; F29 (B6, ¶3): "As such, we are confident that our reproduction of these materials constitutes fair use."; F30 (B6, ¶4): "In the case of the type of political materials contained in the archive, actual ownership can be difficult to identify. Particularly with the more informally produced documents, ownership may reside with any number of contributors (often un-attributed or pseudonymous) unless rights were specifically ceded to the organisation responsible for producing the final materials. In light of this difficulty, we feel it is reasonable to identify the organisation and the named contributors for each document."; F31 (B6, ¶5): "For all materials, copyright remains with the original authors. However, in most cases non-commercial re-use of the materials constitutes fair use."; F32 (B6, ¶6): "we would appreciate if any re-use of materials downloaded from the ILA would acknowledge this by providing attribution (or, in the case of a website, a link back) to the ILA, as well as the original authors."; F35 (B7, ¶4): "If files have been posted for or to other online archives previously we would appreciate if you would inform us when getting in contact. We are keen to credit others’ work or provide links where applicable." | — | untranslated: composed as received beside ML-23 | ML-23 |
| F18, F21, F24, F25 | F18 (B5, ¶2): "Over the years the scope of the Irish Left Archive has grown considerably and now includes at least some sample materials from the major political formations on the island. However, large gaps still remain both chronologically and in terms of individual groups or formations."; F21 (B5, ¶3): "It is further hoped that this site will make it easier to identify gaps in the archive’s coverage and encourage readers to donate documents and provide missing information or corrections to the existing material."; F24 (B5, ¶6): "The Archive hopes to encompass materials from all on the left including those from Socialist, Social Democrat, Green, Marxist, Republican, Anarchist, Feminists, Trade Unions, campaigning groups, left and progressive Unionist voices and other groups on the island of Ireland, or with connections to Irish politics"; F25 (B5, ¶6): "But interesting or progressive noises from Fine Gael or Fianna Fáil are also of interest. Further areas include reflections upon the Irish left from organisations of the left and other ideological positions both in Ireland and outside of Ireland" | — | untranslated: composed as received beside ML-18, CAP-1-06 | ML-18, CAP-1-06 |
| F3 | F3 (B1, In the Archive): "1231 Documents 436 Organisations 47 Internationals 217 Publications 875 People 20 Demonstrations 10 Collections 12 Articles" | — | untranslated: composed as received beside ML-06, ML-13 | ML-06, ML-13 |
| F4 | F4 (B1, Timeline): "Timeline of the Irish Left An interactive timeline of Irish Left organisations and parties from 1900 to the present." | — | untranslated: composed as received beside ML-12, CAP-1-06, O1725-03 | ML-12, CAP-1-06, O1725-03 |
| F15 | F15 (B1, Advanced Search): "Search Sections Collections Demonstrations Documents International People Publications Organisations Subjects Select All Deselect All Years: From to" | — | untranslated: composed as received beside ML-22 | ML-22 |
| F5, F6 | F5 (B1, Featured Document): "Irish Socialist, No. 123 January 1973, from the Communist Party of Ireland. … Socialist Worker, Vol. 2, No. 146 Socialist Workers’ Party, 2001"; F6 (B1, Recent Material; Latest Updates): "Joint Statement by the Irish Republican Socialist Party and The… … Irish Republican Socialist Party, The Leninist group (CPGB) … Updated: Communist Party of Great Britain (Provisional Central Committee) Organisation | 26th October 2026" | — | untranslated: composed as received beside ML-07, ML-09, ML-10, ML-25, ML-20, ML-21, O1725-07 | ML-07, ML-09, ML-10, ML-25, ML-20, ML-21, O1725-07 |
| F7, F8 | F7 (B1, Collections: The British Left on Ireland): "Since the Irish Left Archive began it has included documents from the British left on Ireland, and these have accumulated over the years to cover a wide range of groups. This collection shows some of the positions taken by the British left over the course of the last several decades."; F8 (B1, Collections): "Wood Quay Protests Documents related to the Wood Quay protests of 1978 and 1979, which sought to preserve the Viking site found on the planned site of Dublin Corporation's new offices. The Hunger Strikes Materials relating to the Hunger Strikes of 1980/1 in the archive." | — | untranslated: composed as received | |
| F9 | F9 (B1, Snapshots of Political Action): "Snapshots of Political Action A project from Irish Election Literature and the Irish Left Archive Documents from demonstrations" | — | untranslated: composed as received beside ML-14, ML-27 | ML-14, ML-27 |
| F10, F11 | F10 (B1, Personal Accounts): "The Irish Left Archive hopes to collate first-hand political reminiscences or observations from people involved in Irish Left political activity over the years. We'd be grateful to anyone who has been involved in political parties, campaigns or activism who would like to provide us an account of their personal experience."; F11 (B1, Latest Comments): "I was one of the 5 who produced Focalín. I know the name of the cartoonist and the other 3 of course." | — | untranslated: composed as received beside ML-15 | ML-15 |
| F33, F34, F36, F37, F40 | F33 (B7, ¶1): "We appreciate submissions of any materials that seem relevant to the scope of the archive, either in physical or digital form."; F34 (B7, ¶3): "We add new material to the archive on a weekly basis, so donated documents won’t appear immediately on the site. This allows us time for scanning, reading and writing the accompanying commentaries for documents before they are added, and also gives time for the discussions that often provide valuable context to the materials we post."; F36 (B7, Acknowledgements): "Many people have kindly donated documents to the archive over the years since its creation. These are greatly appreciated and have been crucial to keeping the project active and helping us to expand our coverage of the Irish Left."; F37 (B7, Acknowledgements): "Some have preferred to be acknowledged psuedonymously, and thank you also to those who have donated materials anonymously. … Irish Communist Party; Irish Socialist Network … The Socialist Party ; The Workers’ Party"; F40 (B2, episode: 2025 Round Up): "This episode is a round up of the Irish Left Archive project in 2025 and answers to some listener questions. Thanks as always to everyone who has supported and engaged with the archive by sending documents, speaking on the podcast, emailing, commenting, and using the site." | — | untranslated: composed as received beside ML-11 | ML-11 |
| F13, F38, F39, F42 | F13 (B1, Irish Left Archive Podcast; Latest on the CLR): "Irish Left Archive Podcast Exploring Left politics in Ireland past and present … ILA Podcast #72: Kevin Rooney: IrishBorderPoll.com By: Aonrud ⚘ | Fri, 30 Oct 2026 10:54:35"; F38 (B2, show description): "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."; F39 (B2, show description): "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."; F42 (B3, podcast header): "podcast.leftarchive.ie/@ILAPodcast Monthly podcast. Next episode on Tuesday, December 8." | — | untranslated: composed as received | |
| F45, F46 | F45 (B4, account lookup (B4-api.txt)): "created_at: 2021-05-10T00:00:00.000Z last_status_at: 2023-01-02 statuses_count: 423"; F46 (B4, account lookup (B4-api.txt), profile fields): "field: 🔗 Website: https://www.leftarchive.ie (verified_at 2022-05-16T11:00:13.326+00:00)" | — | untranslated: composed as received | |
| F12, F43 | F12 (B1, Latest Updates): "Updated: The Leninist group (CPGB) Organisation | 26th October 2026 … Updated: Independents 4 Change Organisation | 23rd October 2026"; F43 (B3, episode list): "71 episodes • 0 archived • Bookmarks S7 E72" | — | untranslated: composed as received beside ML-24 | ML-24 |
| F41, F47, F48, F49 | F41 (B2, episode: 2025 Round Up): "Thanks also to the editorial team of Saothar, the journal of the Irish Labour History Society, for including an article on the Irish Left Archive in their 50th anniversary edition, Saothar 50."; F47 (B8, the article title (B8.txt)): "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irish_Left_Archive : HTTP 404: 'Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name.'"; F48 (B8, full-text search (B8.txt)): "Full-text search for "Irish Left Archive" in articles: HTTP 200, 32 results"; F49 (B8, search snippet: Look Left (Ireland) (B8.txt)): "LookLeft began publication in 2006 as a Workers' Party publication. The Irish Left Archive holds a March 2009 issue, listed as volume 4, number 1." | — | untranslated: composed as received beside CAP-1-02 | CAP-1-02 |
v0.9 §4.10: KO_B sentences surviving in the KO at similarity ≥ 0.95, with positions (computed as apply_v09.py does: difflib.SequenceMatcher ratio, the best KO sentence for each KO_B sentence): v0.9 0 of 13 (positions [None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None]; composed first under v0.9, so there is no v0.7 object to measure against). Opening-run check (§5.10): no breach.
The Irish Left Archive, begun in 2007 when the Cedar Lounge Revolution decided "to initiate and host the Irish Left Online Document Archive", is an online archive of Irish left politics, freely accessible, its documents easy to download and reproduce (About page; home page). Started by Ciarán Swan, with a website created by Aonghus Storey, who maintain it as co-curators, it gained a database website in 2013 at about 300 documents, while documents continue to be posted and discussed on the CLR (About page; home page). It is meant as an informal but reasonably comprehensive history of the Irish left and a general historical resource open to all irrespective of political position, linked to no party and passing no judgement on its documents (About page). Its scope is all of the left, from socialist and Marxist to anarchist, feminist, trade union and progressive unionist voices, with progressive material from Fine Gael or Fianna Fáil and reflections on the Irish left from elsewhere (About page; Mastodon profile). It holds 1231 documents from 436 organisations, 217 publications and 875 people, with a timeline of organisations and parties from 1900 and search by section and years, and its curators state that large gaps remain in time and in individual formations, the site meant to make them easier to see (home page; About page). Rival organisations' documents stand side by side under their issuers' names, the Communist Party of Ireland beside the Socialist Workers' Party, small and splinter groups' records updated in October 2026, with a collection of the British left's positions on Ireland (home page). Collections cover Wood Quay and the Hunger Strikes, and Snapshots of Political Action, with Irish Election Literature, holds documents from demonstrations (home page). It hopes to collate participants' first-hand accounts, and its comments carry testimony from those who made the documents (home page). Material arrives by submission, physical or digital, and is added weekly after scanning, reading and commentary; donations, some pseudonymous or anonymous and some from parties, keep it active, and it asks to be told of earlier postings so as to credit others' work (Content Submissions; Spotify). It reproduces documents made for dissemination without modifying them, holds this to be fair use, identifies each document by its organisation and named contributors, leaves copyright with the authors and asks that re-use credit the ILA and the authors (Copyright page). Its podcast, monthly and hosted by the two curators, interviews people from Left parties, campaigns and publications and looks at the role of informal archives, reaching episode 72 on 30 October 2026 (Spotify; Pocket Casts; home page). Its Mastodon account, verified to the site, last posted on 2 January 2023 (mastodon.online). Wikipedia has no article on it, though 32 articles carry its name, Look Left's citing a 2009 issue it holds, and Saothar 50 carried an article on it (Wikipedia; Spotify).
The Irish Left Archive is "an online archive of materials relating to Irish left politics, freely accessible and easy to download and reproduce" (its home page; maryleelabor record), intended from its start for "documents, leaflets, pamphlets, posters and newspapers from the latter half of the 20th century placed online in PDF format" (its About page), a "Digital collection of political material from the Irish Left" on its Mastodon profile (mastodon.online), known also as the Digital Archive of Irish Left Politics, the ILA and the CLR Irish Left Archive (maryleelabor record). The maryleelabor record asks of it the census's question, "Whose record does it keep, who holds it, and does it keep the losing side in a form that could be taken up later?", places it in three areas, movement and party documents ("programmes, polemics, internal bulletins, periodicals, the record of splits"), archives and custody ("collections of papers and records of labor and the left, held for later readers") and labor action, with movement documents and periodical runs as its evidence, and tags it "NOT the archive of one party: it holds documents of hundreds of organisations side by side" (maryleelabor record). "In 2007 the Cedar Lounge Revolution decided to initiate and host the Irish Left Online Document Archive" (About page); its home page says it "was initiated by the Cedar Lounge Revolution" and carries the blog's latest posts, and documents "continue to be posted to the CLR where the regular discussions have been invaluable in contextualising the materials and providing corrections" (home page; About page). In 2013, at "about 300 documents", it was given a database website, which its curators hoped would make gaps in its coverage easier to identify and draw donations and corrections (About page). "The ILA was started by Ciarán Swan and the website was created by Aonghus Storey, who both maintain the project as co-curators" (About page), and the two host its podcast (Spotify); the maryleelabor record, whose About source answered 404 at /about/ and /about, gives the operator as "not named beyond its origin", with podcast episodes and commentary "posted by Aonrud" (maryleelabor record; home page). Its rationale is "an informal but reasonably comprehensive history of the Irish left", and, "perhaps most importantly", a "general historical resource, open to all irrespective of political position": "The Archive is not linked to any political party, and no judgement is made, beyond points regarding quality of production, on these documents in the accompanying texts" (About page). The maryleelabor record reads the holder as "an independent online archive outside any of the organisations it keeps", the archive itself, freely accessible, with content submitted "through a Content Submissions route" (maryleelabor record), and the Copyright page states the terms of holding: a resource "open to all" that aims to hold its materials "without compromising the ownership or original intent" of them (Copyright page). The Copyright page holds that the documents were "intended for widespread dissemination", that reproducing them is "in the spirit of their original production", and that "other than to scan and digitize them, we do not modify the original materials"; it is "confident" its reproduction "constitutes fair use", identifies "the organisation and the named contributors for each document" because ownership of informally produced material may lie with contributors "often un-attributed or pseudonymous", leaves copyright "with the original authors", and asks that re-use attribute the ILA "as well as the original authors" (Copyright page); the maryleelabor record, which did not save the page, gives the license as "not stated in the saved text" (maryleelabor record). Its scope is "materials from all on the left", from socialist and Marxist to anarchist, feminist, trade union and "left and progressive Unionist voices", with "interesting or progressive noises from Fine Gael or Fianna Fáil" and reflections on the Irish left from other positions in and outside Ireland (About page). On 31 October 2026 it held 1231 documents from 436 organisations, 47 internationals, 217 publications and 875 people, with 20 demonstrations, 10 collections and 12 articles (home page; maryleelabor record), its unit a dated document "attributed to the organisation that issued it" (maryleelabor record); its curators state that it "now includes at least some sample materials from the major political formations on the island" and that "large gaps still remain both chronologically and in terms of individual groups or formations" (About page), and the record lists "how complete any organisation's run of documents is" among what it does not answer (maryleelabor record). An interactive timeline records "Irish Left organisations and parties from 1900 to the present" (home page), the home page's documents running from 1967 to 2026 (maryleelabor record), and the archive is searched by section and by years (home page; maryleelabor record). Its home page sets rival organisations' documents side by side under their issuers' names, the Communist Party of Ireland's Irish Socialist of 1973 beside the Socialist Workers' Party's Socialist Worker of 2001, and keeps small and splinter organisations' records current, a joint statement of the Irish Republican Socialist Party with The Leninist group (CPGB), the record of the Communist Party of Great Britain (Provisional Central Committee) updated on 26 October 2026 (home page); the maryleelabor record says it keeps "the documents of Irish left organisations, parties and campaigns, and of British left groups writing on Ireland, as their issuers published them", that "it keeps rival organisations' documents side by side under their own names", and that "The saved text does not describe splits or expulsions as a category" (maryleelabor record). Its collection The British Left on Ireland "shows some of the positions taken by the British left over the course of the last several decades" (home page), answering, in the record's terms, "what positions British left groups took on Ireland, in their own documents" (maryleelabor record). The Capture Registry reads the holdings at their grain, "The archive keeps every organisation of a fissile left, its rival parties included, on one record and one timeline" (Capture Registry, 2026-10-31), and the curators state that "large gaps still remain" in individual groups or formations (About page). Ils ne sont pas marxistes (#1725) finds in the left's case record "abundant conflict and very few mechanisms that carry a defeated critique forward into the organization's next form", the critique "settled by vote, verdict or decree, with the losing position carried into nothing that follows", and exit the only remaining move "Where a minority is denied its own public organ" (#1725). #1725 states the condition of synthesis, a defeated critique that kept "an organ in which it could keep being stated, a holder with standing independent of the executive, and a route by which the majority could later adopt it without calling that adoption surrender": the SPD "condemned the critique without expelling the critic, and the critique kept its organ", and in the New Left critics with "a caucus, collective, journal or paper" developed the critique "until the wider left took it up", sublation appearing across a movement over decades and "outside the bodies that generated the critique" (#1725). The maryleelabor record reads the Irish Left Archive "as an organ in #1725's sense at the scale of a national left: it keeps defeated and splinter organisations' documents under their own names next to their rivals', with a timeline of the organisations and participants' own accounts, so a position can be read later in its own words" (maryleelabor record). Where a dispute concerns a group's identity, #1725 holds, "a split is the honest outcome, and the question becomes whether the split is recorded and argued or simply enacted" (#1725); the record lists "how a dispute between organisations was settled, beyond what their documents say" among what the archive does not answer, and tags it "NOT a record of membership or votes" (maryleelabor record). #1725 states its own limit, that "no cross-organization dataset of left splits, or of minority positions later adopted, was found for any period" and that the pattern's "frequency across the left as a whole is unmeasured", and it places "Accumulated critical capacity" in "archives, in libraries and in the weights of models", where "Under narrowing, no sequence of small corrections reaches standing for it" (#1725). Its collections include the Wood Quay protests of 1978 and 1979 and the Hunger Strikes of 1980/1, and Snapshots of Political Action, "A project from Irish Election Literature and the Irish Left Archive", holds "Documents from demonstrations" (home page; maryleelabor record), which the record tags "NOT a counted dataset of protests: its demonstrations section holds documents from 20 demonstrations" (maryleelabor record). It "hopes to collate first-hand political reminiscences or observations from people involved in Irish Left political activity over the years" and asks for them, and its comments carry participants' own testimony, "I was one of the 5 who produced Focalín" (home page); the record states that "the personal accounts depend on contribution" and gives the method as "submitted materials (Content Submissions) and personal accounts invited from participants" with "comments open on records" (maryleelabor record). It takes "submissions of any materials that seem relevant to the scope of the archive, either in physical or digital form", adds them "on a weekly basis" after "scanning, reading and writing the accompanying commentaries", asks to be told where a file was posted before because it is "keen to credit others’ work", and states that donations "have been crucial to keeping the project active", its donors including pseudonymous and anonymous givers and organisations such as the Irish Communist Party, the Irish Socialist Network, the Socialist Party and the Workers' Party (Content Submissions); its 2025 round-up thanks those who sent documents, spoke on the podcast, emailed, commented and used the site (Spotify). The Irish Left Archive Podcast, hosted by Ciarán Swan and Aonghus Storey, talks to "activists, writers, historians, politicians and others involved in Left organisations and movements" and looks at "the role of the Irish Left Archive and similar informal projects" (Spotify; Pocket Casts); Pocket Casts lists it as a "Monthly podcast" and counts 71 episodes beside S7 E72, and the home page gives episode 72 on 30 October 2026, posted by Aonrud (Pocket Casts; home page). Its Mastodon account, its website link verified to leftarchive.ie, opened in May 2021 and last posted on 2 January 2023 (mastodon.online). Its records were updated on 26 and 23 October 2026, and the former address clririshleftarchive.org redirects to leftarchive.ie (home page; maryleelabor record). Wikipedia has no article on it, and 32 Wikipedia articles carry its name, the Look Left article noting that "The Irish Left Archive holds a March 2009 issue" (Wikipedia); Saothar, the journal of the Irish Labour History Society, carried an article on it in its 50th anniversary edition (Spotify). The maryleelabor record says it answers "what a named Irish left organisation published, in its own documents, and when" (maryleelabor record). At its own name, "the census name; NEW address", the Overview cited "Four cards: the archive, Spotify, Pocket Casts, mastodon.online", and the Capture Registry reads it as giving "its holdings, its timeline of organisations, its personal accounts and its podcast", "Faithful at the level of holdings and features", with "ITS ORIGIN IN THE CEDAR LOUNGE REVOLUTION NOT CARRIED" (Capture Registry, 2026-10-31). The registry finds "The archive's founding by a left blog's community, which is who holds the record, is absent", the composition naming "the podcast's hosts and no holder of the archive", "no holder named" (Capture Registry, 2026-10-31); the hosts it names are the co-curators who started the archive and built its website (About page). #1725 reads the composing layer's ending of a dispute "by omission, balance or verdict", in which, as in the organisations' endings, "the losing position reaches no later form in which it could be answered", and holds the left's lost capacity for internal critique and "the mediation layer's smooth surface" to be "one incapacity at two scales" (#1725).
T against L_F(B) (AIO's ontology at work on its own cards): At 'Irish Left Archive' (T1, four cards, B1–B4, all fetched; 169 words in the answer body, seven marker groups, a closing offer) the composition gives the archive by its holdings and features. Composed from its cards: the definition at a coarser grain than card 1's own sentence (B1 F1, 'an online archive of materials relating to Irish left politics, freely accessible and easy to download and reproduce'; T1-1, 'a digital project and online repository dedicated to collecting, preserving, and sharing material'), with B4's profile ('Digital collection of political material from the Irish Left', F44) beside it; free access (F1; T1-2 'Freely accessible'); the timeline at the card's grain (B1 F4; T1-3, 'organizations and parties from 1900 to the present'); the count rounded (B1 F3, 1231 documents and 436 organisations; T1-4, 'over 1,200 documents, hundreds of organizations'); the personal accounts (B1 F10; T1-5); the podcast and its hosts at the cards' grain (B2/B3 F38, F39; T1-6, 'interviews with activists, writers, historians, and politicians'), card 3's 'Monthly podcast' composed as 'regular' (F42, coarser). Available, not composed: the origin on card 1's own page, 'It was initiated by the Cedar Lounge Revolution' (B1 F2), and the blog's feed on the same page (F14); the rival and splinter organisations' documents set side by side under their issuers' names (B1 F5, F6), which T1-2 composes as 'various Irish left-wing and progressive organizations'; the collection of the British left's positions on Ireland (F7), Wood Quay and the Hunger Strikes (F8), Snapshots of Political Action with Irish Election Literature (F9), participants' testimony in the comments (F11), the records updated in October 2026 (F12), search by section and years (F15); on card 2's page the 2025 round-up's thanks to donors and Saothar 50's article on the archive (F40, F41); on card 4 the account's last post of 2 January 2023 (F45), the card's own snippet date. Limit dropped and force raised: card 1 states the personal accounts as a hope and a request, 'hopes to collate first-hand political reminiscences' and 'We'd be grateful to anyone … who would like to provide us an account' (F10); T1-5 composes them as an activity done, 'Collects first-hand observations and reminiscences'. Role reduced: T1-6 names Ciarán Swan and Aonghus Storey as the podcast's hosts, the role cards 2 and 3 give them (F39); the About page, an own page T did not surface, gives the same two as the archive's founder and website maker, 'who both maintain the project as co-curators' (B5 F26); from its cards alone T could not compose the curators' role, and it names the holders under the podcast's. Composed without attribution: none at the name; T1-4's list of tendencies (socialism, communism, trade unionism, republicanism, anarchism) stands nearest card 4's hashtags (#Communism #Socialism #Marxism #Republicanism #Anarchism #TradeUnions, in B4's text, which the ledger does not extract as claims) and the About page's list (B5 F24, not surfaced), at the coarse grain of a list of tendencies. Content replaced by use: T1-7's closing offer to 'explore the digital collection, timelines, and recent updates directly on the Irish Left Archive Website or listen to episodes via the Irish Left Archive Podcast on Spotify' (N_ext). Outside the cards: 'manifestos' (no field claim; the About page lists 'documents, leaflets, pamphlets, posters and newspapers', F17); 'preserving' (no field claim); 'profiles' (no field claim); 'and-anarchism', a join in T's text. The Capture Registry's findings name the timeline at its grain and the origin not carried (CAP-1-06, CAP-1-07); the field ledger agrees on the origin (F2 on card 1, available and not composed), and qualifies the registry's 'no holder named' (CAP-1-08): the two persons T names are the archive's co-curators by its About page (F26), which the census did not read (ML-28).
L_F(B) against L_A(B ∪ A) (the intervention): Admission adds, in one claim space with the field's: the census's question, whose record, who holds it and whether it keeps the losing side in a form that could be taken up later (ML-29), its areas, among them 'the record of splits' (ML-04, ML-30, ML-31), and its evidence kinds (ML-05); the record's answers field by field with their basis on the home page (ML-01, ML-06, ML-12–ML-14, ML-22, ML-24), its reading of whose record the archive keeps (ML-07), of the losing side (ML-09) and its limit that splits are no category of the saved text (ML-10), of the holder as 'an independent online archive outside any of the organisations it keeps' (ML-21) and of the archive as 'an organ in #1725's sense at the scale of a national left' (ML-20), its negative tags (ML-25–ML-27) and what it answers and does not (ML-16–ML-19); #1725's account of the class: the losing position carried into nothing (O1725-01, O1725-02), exit where a minority is denied its own public organ (O1725-04), the organ, the holder and the route as the condition of synthesis (O1725-07, with O1725-05 and O1725-06), the split 'recorded and argued or simply enacted' (O1725-08), the missing cross-organisation record of splits (O1725-03, a limit), critical capacity held in archives, where under narrowing no small correction reaches standing for it (O1725-11), and the composing layer's ending of a dispute by omission, balance or verdict (O1725-09, O1725-10); and the Capture Registry's account of the composition at the name (CAP-1-01–CAP-1-09). Held under P_coh: the record's 'not named beyond its origin' (ML-03), resting on an About source that answered 404 (ML-28), against the About page's co-curators (F26); the registry's 'every organisation of a fissile left' (CAP-1-06) against the curators' 'large gaps still remain' (F18). Not surfaced: every archive source; no card cites the census record or the capture.
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