The Cork Socialist Party was a minor political party based in

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. It was founded in 1945,''Political Parties in the Republic of Ireland'' by Michael Gallagher. Manchester University Press,1985 (pg. 97-8). and was formed in the aftermath of the

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expelling the members and disbanding the Cork Liam Mellows Branch of the Party which had only been formed in 1944.

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veteran Michael O'Riordan was the secretary other notable members included Jim Savage and Gerry Higgins (who like O'Riordan had been a member of the Liam Mellows branch of the

),MISCELLANEOUS NOTES ON REPUBLICANISM AND SOCIALISM IN CORK CITY, 1954–69 By Jim Lane
other notable members were Derry Kelleher, Kevin Neville and Máire Keohane-Sheehan. The Cork Socialist Party ran a number of public lectures on topics like 'science and socialism', 'on the Jewish question', 'Cork Pioneers of Socialism ( William Thompson)'. In 1945 the party ran Micheal O'Riordan for a seat on

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, he was narrowly defeated being eliminated on the last count. O'Riordan also ran in the 1946 by-election in Cork Borough receiving 3,184 votes. O'Riordan went on to join the Irish Workers Party and eventually become general secretary of

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when it was formed.Some famous Irish communists Michael O’Riordan (1917–2006)
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