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Tadhg Barry & Revolutionary Cork (1907-1921)- talk by Donal O’Drisceoil on Tuesday 19th October @ 8pm at Solidarity Books in Cork City October 17, 2010

This is part of a series of Winter Talks coming up at Solidarity Books in Cork City. Solidarity Books, a radical bookshop and meeting space in Cork, stocks many books and journals relating to Irish labour history as well as many other contemporary and classic left; radical books, pamphlets and papers. Open a year in December, Solidarity Books has regular film screenings and other social and political events that regularly take place in the bookshop throughout the year. The Winter Talks will be happening over the next 7 weeks.

As noted in the email to the CLR:

In particular there are 3 talks which should be of particular interest to you and your readers: firstly a talk by UCC lecturer and editor of Saothar Labour Journal, Donal O Dirsceoil, who will be talking about Tadhg Barry and Revolutionary Cork; Brian Hanley will be talking about The Lost Revolution and the history of the OIRA and Workers Party; and Trinity college lecturer Conor Kostick will be talking about Labour Militancy in Ireland based on his fascinating book “Revolution in Ireland: Popular Militancy 1917-1923″ which documented the huge upsurge of working class militancy in the period.

All talks are on a Tuesday night and start at 8pm at Solidarity Books which is located at 43, Douglas Street (directly across the road from Fionnbarra’s pub) in Cork City.

First up:

Tadhg Barry & Revolutionary Cork (1907-1921)
– by Donal O’Drisceoil on Tuesday 19th October @ 8pm

Dr Donal Ó Drisceoil lectures in History at UCC. He is the author or co-author of a number of books. He is the editor of Saothar: Journal of Irish Labour History. He was historical advisor on the award-winning film, The Wind that Shakes the Barley which was the winner of the Palme d’Or at the Cannes film festival in 2006. He is currently completing a history of media and literary censorship in 20th-century Ireland. The subject for his talk at Solidarity Books will be Tadhg Barry, a Cork socialist trade-unionist and republican who fused his vision for the betterment of the labouring classes with the nationalist cause. The talk guarantees to be both extensive and interesting while retaining that wider appeal which locally rooted history always brings.
Donal O Drisceoil is currently writing a political biography Of Tadhg Barry.

Here’s a google maps location of where the shop is located.

And this is the link for the Solidarity Books facebook page for good measure.

More info on each lecture in advance.