Young Labour League
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At least three organizations have used the name Young Labour League.
[edit] Australia
The first Young Labor League (with the letter "u" missing from the word "Labor") appears to have been founded in Australia in the last years of the nineteenth century, and became associated with the Australian Labor Party.
[edit] United Kingdom
The second Young Labour League was founded in Clapham, England, in 1920, and became the youth wing of the Labour Party [1] in the United Kingdom in 1924.
[edit] Republic of Ireland
The third Young Labour League was founded in Dublin in the Republic of Ireland in about 1965 or 1966 under the auspices of Brendan Corish, and with the encouragement of Proinsias Mac Aonghusa. Its Chairman was Brian O'Higgins, a secondary school student and son of an Irish actor.
Its campaigns included supporting Radio Caroline, a pirate radio station, selling the Labour Party newspaper in Dublin pubs, and it produced a regular newsletter written by Brian O'Higgins.
It had the only stall at Liberty House, Dublin, at the Party's annual conference at which Brendan Corish announced that: "The Seventies will be Socialist". The stall, at the entrance to the conference, sold Corish Speaks (a collection of the principal speeches of the Leader), pamplets by James Connolly, and other publications.
Its members assisted the Party during elections.
The League was intensely loyal to Brendan Corish.
It had ceased to exist by the early 1970s.
It was succeeded by Labour Youth.
