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Party Current Leader English translation
/ Name in Irish
Founded Inaugural Leader Ideology Position International organisation EP Group
style="background-color: Template:Fine Gael/meta/color" | Fine Gael Enda Kenny "Clan of the Gaels" 1933 Eoin O'Duffy Christian democracy,
Liberal conservatism
Centre-right Centrist Democrat International EPP
style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (Ireland)/meta/color" | Labour Party Joan Burton Páirtí an Lucht Oibre 1912 James Connolly
James Larkin
William X. O'Brien
Social democracy,
Third Way
Centre-left Socialist International S&D
style="background-color: Template:Fianna Fáil/meta/color" | Fianna Fáil Micheál Martin "Soldiers of Destiny"[nb 1] 1926 Éamon de Valera Irish republicanism,
Liberal conservatism,
Populism
Centre-right Liberal International ALDE
style="background-color: Template:Sinn Féin/meta/color" | Sinn Féin Gerry Adams "We Ourselves"[nb 2] 1905 / 1970[nb 3] Arthur Griffith Irish republicanism,
Left-wing nationalism,
Democratic socialism
Left-wing none GUE/NGL
style="background-color: Template:Anti-Austerity Alliance–People Before Profit/meta/color" | Anti-Austerity Alliance–People Before Profit none 2015 none Democratic socialism Left-wing none none
style="background-color: Template:Renua Ireland/meta/color" | Renua Ireland Lucinda Creighton Dervived from "Ré Nua" meaning "New Era" 2015 Lucinda Creighton Conservatism Right-wing none none
style="background-color: Template:Social Democrats (Ireland)/meta/color" | Social Democrats Stephen Donnelly
Catherine Murphy
Róisín Shortall
2015 Stephen Donnelly
Catherine Murphy
Róisín Shortall
Social democracy Centre-left none none
style="background-color: Template:Workers and Unemployed Action/meta/color" | Workers and Unemployed Action Séamus Healy 1985 Séamus Healy Left-wing none none
style="background-color: Template:Green Party (Ireland)/meta/color" | Green Party Eamon Ryan Comhaontas Glas 1981 none[nb 4] Green politics Centre-left Global Greens Greens/EFA
style="background-color: Template:United Left (Ireland)/meta/color" | United Left none[nb 5] 2013 none Democratic socialism Far-left none none
style="background-color: Template:Workers' Party of Ireland/meta/color" | Workers' Party Michael Donnelly Páirtí na nOibrithe 1970[nb 6] Tomás Mac Giolla Communism,
Irish republicanism,
Marxism–Leninism
Far-left Communist and Workers' Parties none
style="background-color: Template:Republican Sinn Féin/meta/color" | Republican Sinn Féin Des Dalton Sinn Féin Poblachtach 1986 Ruairí Ó Brádaigh Irish republicanism,
Éire Nua,
Socialism
Left-wing none none
style="background-color: Template:Socialist Party (Ireland)/meta/color" | Socialist Party[nb 7] Joe Higgins Páirtí Sóisialach 1996 Joe Higgins Democratic socialism, Trotskyism Far-left Committee for a Workers' International GUE/NGL

References

  1. ^ More literally – Warriors of Fál, Fál being an ancient romantic name for Ireland.
  2. ^ Another common translation, though not literal, is Ourselves Alone.
  3. ^ The current party known as Sinn Féin broke from the party then known as Sinn Féin in 1970 and was initially commonly referred to as Provisional Sinn Féin.
  4. ^ For the first twenty years of its existence, the Green Party did not have a national leader. Trevor Sargent was elected as the first national leader in 2001.
  5. ^ Registered Officers are Clare Daly, Joan Collins, Declan Bree and Pat Dunne.
  6. ^ The Workers' Party emerged as the majority faction from a split in Sinn Féin in 1970, becoming known as Official Sinn Féin. In the Republic of Ireland, it renamed itself as Sinn Féin The Workers' Party in 1977. In Northern Ireland, it continued with the Republican Clubs name used by Sinn Féin to escape a 1964 ban, and later as Workers Party Republican Clubs. Both sections adopted the current name in 1982.
  7. ^ Part of Anti-Austerity Alliance-People Before Profit