Éirígí  Éirígí ( or , is a socialist republican political party in Ireland, registered since 2010 to contest local elections only. The party name, "Éirígí", means "Arise" or "Rise Up" in the Irish language, a reference to a famous speech by trade union leader James Larkin. Éirígí was formed in 2006 by a group of community and political activists.  Éirígí was formed by a small group of group of community and political activists who had left Sinn Féin in Dublin on 24 April 2006, shortly before the 90th anniversary of the 1916 Easter Rising, as a political campaigns group. On 12 May 2007, at the party's first Ardfheis (conference), its members voted to become a full-fledged political party, and at its 2009 conference passed a motion to register as a political party in the Republic of Ireland. It gained its first local councillors in 2009, when two former Sinn Féin councillors, Dungannon councillor Barry Monteith and Dublin City Councillor Louise Minihan, joined the organisation. Former Wexford county councillor for Sinn Féin and New Ross town councillor John Dwyer also joined Éirígí. In the 2014 local elections, it didn't succeed in getting any of its eight candidates elected, leaving it without elected representation. The party has become known for the use of nonviolent direct action and regular protests in Belfast, Dublin, and elsewhere. It has launched a mobile app aimed at telling people their rights when they are stopped by the police. Éirígí has organised protests against the visits of Britain's Queen Elizabeth and Princess Anne to Ireland. The party stood for election in Northern Ireland for the first time in the 2011 local elections, citing dissatisfaction with Sinn Féin's involvement in the Northern Ireland Executive, and claiming there was "a real appetite for a radical voice" in Northern Irish politics. It registered with the Electoral Commission (United Kingdom) a month before the 2011 elections. Out of the two candidates Éirígí put forward in the 2011 elections, neither was elected, with Pádraic Mac Coitir securing 1415 votes in the Upper Falls ward  and John McCusker securing 647 votes in the Lower Falls ward. The party seeks the removal of Northern Ireland from the United Kingdom, and the establishment of a 32-county republic based on socialist principles. Éirígí has participated in a range of campaigns, including Shell to Sea and "Reclaim the Republic" (which involved the organisation distributing 60,000 1916 Proclamations nationwide)., the Right2Water Campaign, the campaign to Repeal The 8th Amendment, and their Public Housing For all campaign, which calls for the state to introduce a housing system where all citizens have the legal right to rent a high-quality, affordable home regardless of their income.