Síle de Valera voters to give preference votes for Anti H-Block candidates in the 1981 general election, a comment which caused controversy. She held her Dáil seat until the 1981 general election, when the constituency boundaries were redrawn. She sought re-election in the new constituency of Dublin South. This caused tension within the local Fianna Fáil party, for one of the other candidates, Séamus Brennan, was a prominent opponent of Haughey. De Valera polled relatively well but narrowly failed to be elected, losing to another Fianna Fáil candidate, Niall Andrews. She contested the constituency again at the February 1982 general election, but saw
Irish Workers' Party (1926) Plough", edited by Roddy Connolly, and focused on work in the Irish National Unemployed Movement, but disintegrated later that year. It was dissolved in 1927 and many of the members (like Connolly) ended up joining the Irish Labour Party, others migrated back to the Irish Worker League and many others featured in other left wing, socialist and communist movements and parties, such as the Republican Congress. Irish Workers' Party (1926) The Irish Workers' Party was a communist party in Ireland. It was founded in 1926 by former members of the Communist Party of Ireland and other communists. Among its members