GREAVES SCHOOL, 14-16 SEPTEMBER 2012
Sep 1st, 2012 by Conor McCabe
Twenty- fourth Desmond Greaves School - 14th - 16th September 2012.
90 years of the Irish state: sovereignty and democracy in the republic
Friday 14th September at 7:30
1. Republicanism and 90 years of the Irish State
Dr Mary Murphy, Lecturer in Irish Politics and Society at NUI Maynooth and recent co-author of Towards the Second Republic; Irish Politics after the Celtic tiger published by Pluto Press.
Micheal MacAonghusa, is former editor of the Irish language newspaper Anois.
Chair: Tommy McKearney, editor of Fourthwrite
Saturday 15th September at 11:00
2. Sovereignty and Interdependency
Sovereignty in a global world.
Andy Storey is a lecturer in the School of Politics and International Relations at UCD and Chairperson of Afri.
Corporations and sovereignty.
Sheila Killian is Head of Department and Senior Lecturer, Accounting & Finance at the University of Limerick.
The future of Europe (not the EU).
Mick O’Reilly is President of Dublin Council of Trade Unions and former Regional Secretary of Unite.
Chair: Patricia McKenna, former MEP.
Saturday 15th September at 2:30
3. Towards genuine political democracy
Clientalism and patronage.
Frank Connolly is the former executive director of the Centre for Public Inquiry and is currently head of communications with SIPTU
Beyond representative democracy.
Bernadette McAlliskey served as MP for the Mid Ulster from 1969 to 1974 .She currently coordinates the South Tyrone Empowerment Programme.
The government’s reform agenda.
Catherine Murphy TD is an independent TD for Kildare North.
Chair: Maureen O’Sullivan TD
Sunday 16th September at 11:00
4. An economy for the common good
Prof. Terrence McDonough, Dept of Economics NUI Galway
Mary Lou McDonald, TD is Vice - President of Sinn Féin
Eugene McCartan, General Secretary, Communist Party of Ireland.
Chair: Esther Lynch, Legal and Social Affairs Officer ICTU
Sunday 16th September at 2:30
5. Independence – what does it mean today?
Ireland’s International relations.
Nessa Ni Chasaide is coordinator of the Debt and Development Coalition Ireland.
The partitionist mentality.
Conor McCarthy: Lecturer in English at NUI Maynooth. He is the author of Modernisation, Crisis and Culture in Ireland 1969 - 1992
How we Irish see ourselves!
Desmond Fennell is a writer, cultural philosopher and linguist.
Chair: Owen Bennett
The organizers have invited a mixed bag of keynote speakers for the Greaves weekend school. Be sure to post, after the event, a summary of points of convergence and points of divergence among speakers and audience participants.