The Irish Sovereignty Movement
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The Irish Sovereignty Movement was a political lobby group in the 1970s and 1980s fronted by Anthony Coughlan
who was its chairman. It held meetings and produced publications campaigning on various political issues mainly to do with Irish Independence and its relationship with the Common Market, EEC and European Community, Irish neutrality, as well as Northern Ireland.
The grouping made presentations to the New Ireland Forum
in 1983. It also hosted meetings and campaigned against the Single European Act
. Coughlan and other ex-members have latterly participated in public debates as members of a similar group called the National Platform
.
Anthony Coughlan
Anthony Coughlan is a left-wing academic, retired Senior Lecturer Emeritus in Social Policy at Trinity College and Secretary of the The National Platform for EU Research and Information Centre....
who was its chairman. It held meetings and produced publications campaigning on various political issues mainly to do with Irish Independence and its relationship with the Common Market, EEC and European Community, Irish neutrality, as well as Northern Ireland.
The grouping made presentations to the New Ireland Forum
New Ireland Forum
The New Ireland Forum was a forum in 1983–84 at which Irish nationalist political parties discussed potential political developments that might alleviate the Troubles in Northern Ireland. The Forum was established by Garret FitzGerald, then Taoiseach, under the influence of John Hume. The Forum was...
in 1983. It also hosted meetings and campaigned against the Single European Act
Single European Act
The Single European Act was the first major revision of the 1957 Treaty of Rome. The Act set the European Community an objective of establishing a Single Market by 31 December 1992, and codified European Political Cooperation, the forerunner of the European Union's Common Foreign and Security Policy...
. Coughlan and other ex-members have latterly participated in public debates as members of a similar group called the National Platform
National Platform
The National Platform for EU Research and Information Centre shortened to National Platform is an Irish Eurosceptic lobby group which campaigns against greater European Union integration, and against a Federal superstate...
.
Publications
- The way to peace in Ireland by Anthony CoughlanAnthony CoughlanAnthony Coughlan is a left-wing academic, retired Senior Lecturer Emeritus in Social Policy at Trinity College and Secretary of the The National Platform for EU Research and Information Centre....
(Irish Sovereignty Movement, 1974) - The EEC: Ireland and the making of a superpower. by Anthony Coughlan (Irish Sovereignty Movement, 1979)
- EEC political union by Anthony Coughlan (Irish Sovereignty Movement Publications, 1985)