Desmond Greaves 20th Summer School: August 2008 August 15, 2008
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Now this looks interesting to me, and perhaps to anyone who visits this site.
C. Desmond Greaves, whose work and writings
inspired the foundation of this Summer School, was one
of Ireland’s leading labour historians. He was author of
The Life and Times of James Connolly, Liam Mellows and the
Irish Revolution, Sean O’Casey: Politics and Art, Wolfe Tone
and the Irish Nation, History of the Irish Transport and
General Workers Union: The Formative Years, The Irish
Crisis, and two books of verse, Four Letter Verses and the
Mountbatten Award and Elephants Against Rome.
It runs from the 29th to 31st of August (in what we now laughably term our Summer) at the Ireland Institute in Pearse Street, Dublin.
Topics include:
The 1960s Northern Civil Rights Movement
Desmond Greaves, the Connolly Association
and Civil RightsWomen’s part in the struggle: civil rights and
women’s rights in 1970s Ireland
Speakers include Anthony Coughlan, Michael Farrell, Sean Redmond and as interesting the Chairs include Sean Garland and Mary Cullen.
€20 in for the full school, €6 for individual session and details on the PDF. For anyone unable to open the PDF Enquiries to:
Frank Keoghan, Summer School Director,
25 Shanowen Crescent, Dublin 9;
Telephone 00-353-1-8423076
Mobile 087-2308330 for further information.
Good to see Garland still involing himself although on the form they still have as president of the WP – a position he has moved on from
I like the story that he was going to name his first volume of the history of the ITGWU, “The Giants”. Perhaps because this implied a title for the subsequent ones.
I prefer Levenson’s bio of Connolly. I feel that Greaves added of a bit of Dimitrov to his.
I can see Garland glaring at Farrell and muttering “You spoiled the plan” as in best laid schemes of mice and men.
Had to
Jim at your last sentence…
In a good way I should add…