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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).", "claims": [ "F16", "F2", "F14", "F20" ] }, { "n": 4, "para": 1, "text": "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).", "claims": [ "F19", "F21" ] }, { "n": 5, "para": 1, "text": "\"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).", "claims": [ "F26", "F39", "ML-03", "ML-28", "F13" ] }, { "n": 6, "para": 2, "text": "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).", "claims": [ "F22", "F23" ] }, { "n": 7, "para": 2, "text": "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).", "claims": [ "ML-21", "ML-08", "F27" ] }, { "n": 8, "para": 2, "text": "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).", "claims": [ "F28", "F29", "F30", "F31", "F32", "ML-23" ] }, { "n": 9, "para": 3, "text": "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).", "claims": [ "F24", "F25" ] }, { "n": 10, "para": 3, "text": "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).", "claims": [ "F3", "ML-13", "ML-06", "F18", "ML-18" ] }, { "n": 11, "para": 3, "text": "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).", "claims": [ "F4", "ML-12", "F15", "ML-22" ] }, { "n": 12, "para": 4, "text": "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).", "claims": [ "F5", "F6", "F12", "ML-07", "ML-09", "ML-10" ] }, { "n": 13, "para": 4, "text": "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).", "claims": [ "F7", "ML-17" ] }, { "n": 14, "para": 4, "text": "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).", "claims": [ "CAP-1-06", "F18" ] }, { "n": 15, "para": 5, "text": "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).", "claims": [ "O1725-01", "O1725-02", "O1725-04" ] }, { "n": 16, "para": 5, "text": "#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).", "claims": [ "O1725-07", "O1725-05", "O1725-06" ] }, { "n": 17, "para": 5, "text": "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).", "claims": [ "ML-20" ] }, { "n": 18, "para": 5, "text": "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).", "claims": [ "O1725-08", "ML-19", "ML-26" ] }, { "n": 19, "para": 5, "text": "#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).", "claims": [ "O1725-03", "O1725-11" ] }, { "n": 20, "para": 6, "text": "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).", "claims": [ "F8", "F9", "ML-14", "ML-27" ] }, { "n": 21, "para": 6, "text": "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).", "claims": [ "F10", "F11", "ML-15", "ML-11" ] }, { "n": 22, "para": 7, "text": "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).", "claims": [ "F33", "F34", "F35", "F36", "F37", "F40" ] }, { "n": 23, "para": 8, "text": "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).", "claims": [ "F38", "F39", "F42", "F43", "F13" ] }, { "n": 24, "para": 8, "text": "Its Mastodon account, its website link verified to leftarchive.ie, opened in May 2021 and last posted on 2 January 2023 (mastodon.online).", "claims": [ "F45", "F46" ] }, { "n": 25, "para": 9, "text": "Its records were updated on 26 and 23 October 2026, and the former address clririshleftarchive.org redirects to leftarchive.ie (home page; maryleelabor record).", "claims": [ "F12", "ML-24" ] }, { "n": 26, "para": 9, "text": "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).", "claims": [ "F47", "F48", "F49", "F41" ] }, { "n": 27, "para": 9, "text": "The maryleelabor record says it answers \"what a named Irish left organisation published, in its own documents, and when\" (maryleelabor record).", "claims": [ "ML-16" ] }, { "n": 28, "para": 10, "text": "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).", "claims": [ "CAP-1-02", "CAP-1-09", "CAP-1-03", "CAP-1-04", "CAP-1-01" ] }, { "n": 29, "para": 10, "text": "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).", "claims": [ "CAP-1-05", "CAP-1-07", "CAP-1-08", "F26" ] }, { "n": 30, "para": 10, "text": "#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).", "claims": [ "O1725-10", "O1725-09" ] } ], "claims": { "F1": { "kind": "field", "quote": "The Irish Left Archive is an online archive of materials relating to Irish left politics , freely accessible and easy to download and reproduce .", "source": "B1", "source_label": "Irish Left Archive — Irish Left Archive — Digital archive of Irish left politics", 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