Irish Democrat /Irish Freedom - on microfilm

1939-2000

now available on 35mm microfilm

The Irish Democrat (formerly Irish Freedom) has been published since 1939. All issues spanning the years 1939 - 2000 are now available for sale on 6 reels of 35mm microfilm, price £500.00.

Portions of the Irish Democrat have been published in the past by World Microfilms Ltd and European Micrographics Ltd as part of the Northern Ireland Political Literature microfiche collection at the Linen Hall Library, Belfast. Connolly Publications Ltd is the sole copyright holder of the Irish Democrat and this is the only authorized microfilm set for purchase.

For orders and inquiries, please contact: Project Director, Connolly Publications Ltd. Four Provinces Bookshop. 244 Gray's Inn Road, London WC1X 8JR, email: PMCELT@aol.com

"ON A grey January day in 1935 a small group of Irishmen, London-based members of the Republican Congress, entered a basement flat in Kilburn for what was to be the first editorial meeting of Irish Front, an occasional bulletin which aimed 'to give Irish exiles significant news of the situation at home.' It was a meeting to which can be traced the origins of the Connolly Association and its paper, the Irish Democrat." -- taken from a short history of the Irish Democrat

The Connolly Association (CA) was founded sixty years ago at a meeting in Doughty Street, Central London in 1938. Many of those attending the meeting had either been members of the London branch of the Republican Congress or the League against Imperialism. Some had been active in the Irish Self-Determination League of the 1920s.

Originally called the Connolly Club, its aims were to work for the complete freedom of the Irish people; provide a social and cultural centre for those promoting the teachings of James Connolly; arrange public meetings, discussions and lectures explaining Connolly's ideas; and to show solidarity with oppressed nations and peoples throughout the world - sentiments continued in the present Connolly Association constitution.

The Connolly Association's paper Irish Freedom, first published in January 1939, was renamed Irish Democrat in 1945.