Ardfheis

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title: "Ardfheis" type: doc version: 1 created: 2026-02-28 author: "Wikipedia contributors" status: active scope: public tags: ["politics-of-ireland", "politics-of-scotland", "political-party-assemblies"] description: "Term for annual conferences of Irish political parties" topic_path: "politics" source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ardfheis" license: "CC BY-SA 4.0" wikipedia_page_id: 0 wikipedia_revision_id: 0

::summary Term for annual conferences of Irish political parties ::

Ardfheis or ard fheis ( , ; 'high assembly'; plural ardfheiseanna) is the name used by many Irish political parties for their annual party conference.

Usage

Among the parties who use the term ardfheis or ard fheis are:

• Irish Republican Socialist Party
• Green Party
• Republican Sinn Féin
• National Party
• Workers' Party
• Connolly Youth Movement

In the Republic of Ireland, the Labour Party, Communist Party, People Before Profit–Solidarity, and the Social Democrats do not use the term ardfheis; however, it is still sometimes used by the media to refer to their annual conventions in an unofficial way.

''Ard chomhairle''

Many political parties who use the term ard fheis also use the term ard chomhairle which means 'national executive committee' (literally 'high council'), and is the governing body of the party.

References

References

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10. The National Party. (15 November 2018). "National Party Ard Fheis 2018".
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12. "The Workers Party Ard Fheis".
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14. "Tóibín to address first Aontú Ard Fheis today".
15. "'It works' – Peter McVerry says housing programme is getting people off the streets".
16. "Red ambition: the Connolly Youth Movement in 2020".
17. [https://www.irishexaminer.com/news/arid-20379224.html Labour ard fheis: Party’s €1.9bn rainy day fund]
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