The following recordings are from the final session in the dayschool organised by Irish Socialist Network and Fourthwrite.
The session was held today, Saturday 7 November 2009, in the Central Hotel, Dublin.
The title of the session was: Building a 21st Century Left
Chair: Mick O’Reilly
Speakers: Murray Smith (New Anti-Capitalist Party, France), Ciaran Perry (independent councillor […]
Introduction, Mick O'Reilly [4:43m]:
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Murray Smith [24:00m]:
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Ciaran Perry [14:57m]:
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[This is a repost from Cedarlounge, 15 October 2009]
Of the other elements involved perhaps it is worth mentioning the Irish Workers Group, which is a revolutionary Socialist group which aims to mobilise the Irish section of the international working class to overthrow the existing Irish bourgeois states, destroy all remaining imperialist organs of political and […]
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Tonight saw the second talk in the Irish Labour History Society’s Autumn lecture series. It was given by David Lynch, journalist and historian, and author of Radical Politics in Modern Ireland: The History of the Irish Socialist Republican Party 1896-1904, and Divided Paradise: An Irishman in the Holy Land.
On Saturday week (31 October 2009), […]
David Lynch: socialist Party of Ireland:
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[This is a guest post by Sam from the UCD Hidden History Blog.]
I am trying to research the lives of two British born socialists who fought and died in the 1916 Easter Rising.
I’m wondering if any readers here can help me and/or forward on this appeal to anyone they think might.
The first is John Neale […]
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It’s been a busy week for Brian Hanley and Scott Millar, authors of Lost Revolution (reviewed here). The book launch was held on Thursday (reviewed here and here), while on Saturday the Desmond Greaves Summer School had a session entitled: “Remembering 1969: memory and history” at which Brian Hanley and Mick Ryan were speaker and […]
Introduction: Remembering 1969:
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Brian Hanley, Main Talk:
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Johnson, Hanley, Ryan:
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Mick Ryan on IRA, 62-68:
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Production on series two of Looking Left will be starting soon, and we’re looking for volunteers. If you liked the 1st series, and would like to get involved, please get in touch. If you’re in town today or tomorrow (12-13 Sept), I’ll be at the Desmond Greaves Summer School, selling the DVD of the first […]
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Last Friday on the Late Late Show, Ryan Tubridy tried to get the Taoiseach, Brian Cowen, to apologise to the Irish people for the state of the economy. It was an all-too-familiar routine - one that frames the roots of the present crisis in terms of moral failure, and the beginnings of a solution […]
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This week sees the release of Lost Revolution, the Story of the Official IRA and the Workers Party, by Dr. Brian Hanley and Scott Millar. Below is a episode of DCTV’s Looking Left, which looked at the Workers’ Party’s newspaper, the Irish People. On the panel are Brian Hanley and one of the former editors […]
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A new generation of Irishmen are creating a new revolution in Ireland and this time they will not be satisfied with half-measures.”
In the run-up to the 1972 Irish referendum on E.E.C. membership, Official Sinn Féin set up a radio station in Dublin in order to propagate its message for a No vote. The station had […]
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Below is a reproduction of the entry on Irish Trotskyism in Robert Jackson Alexander’s book, International Trotskyism, 1929-1985: A Documented Analysis of the Movement (Durham: Duke University Press, 1991). An edited version of the book, including an edited version of the entry on Ireland, is available on Google Books, here.
The article below is simply […]
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