I stumbled upon this amazing box of stickers today in the Irish Labour History Museum in Beggars Bush.
The box.
Brits Must Go!
Coal Not Dole
I Support Our Firefighters
'Irish Trade Unions - Support The Miners' + 'NUM South Wales Area'
ICTU Observer. ICTU Delegate.
'I Support McDonald's Strikers' 'Don't Pass The Picket' 'Grafton St. & O'Connell St.
Labour For Dublin
'Vote Sharkey - Sinn Fein'. Tomás Sharkey?
'Mayday Greetings - Workers For Jobs & Peace'
The Workers Party
'ICTU Against Sectarianism' 'Hands Off My Mate'
'Justice for Birmingham Six'
Support The Miners - NUM - Stop Pit Closures
Unite and Support The Strike - IMETU
When You Buy Irish - The Job's Right - ITGWU
The Workers Party. (Liz) McManus
Trade Union Cards, Not Dole Cards - Jobs Now
Fight University Cuts
Support The Hunger Stike Demands.
Release Mandela
Vote Labour - People Matter Most
Save Jobs with the Miners
IDATU Supports Dunnes Workers - Strike Against Aparthied
DCTU - Tax the Greedy Not the Needy!
Don't Buy The Sun, News of the World, The Times, The Sunday Times.
A Woman's Place Is In Her Union - ICTU
Unemployment is Not Working
Dig Deep For The Miners
Click on the book for more.
Click on the book for more.
Donal
Ciarán
Sam
Come Here To Me! 
Excellent.
Was going to drop a few of them fire brigade strike ones in to the museum! They have anything else from the 1988 strike?
Burn everything British bar their coal.
Always rings with me when I think of the embassy.
That’s a treasure trove if I ever saw one. Brilliant find.
The McManus one might be John McManus (not Liz!)
Possibly from 82 or 87
http://electionsireland.org/candidate.cfm?ID=824
Most likely John McManus from November 1982, although Liz McManus would have stood for local elections (as would John) from the late 70s onwards.
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I’d imagine the sticker above would be from the time of my father Martin’s candidacy in local and european election campaigns during the 80’s.He actually had his name changed by deed poll to ensure the ballot paper read “Sharkey, Martin Sinn féin”