75th Anniversary of the formation of the International Brigades Exhibition and Launch of the IBCC Songbook October 21, 2011
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75th Anniversary of the formation of the International Brigades
Exhibition and Launch of the IBCC Songbook
In Sandino’s Bar, Derry
On Sunday 6th November 2011 @ 3.30pm onwards:
Speakers
Manus O’ Riordan – - Ireland and The Spanish Civil War
(Activist in the Int Brigades Memorial Trust)
John Black, (chair of the North West SCW Project/No Pasaran) – – on the North West Brigadistas
Songs and music by
Manus O’ Riordan, Eileen Webster, Joe Mulheron and others.
Organised by the International Brigades Commemoration Committee with the North West SCW Project.
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TWO BOOK LAUNCHES on 25 NOV. 7.30, TEACHERS CLUB
The Vindication Of Brigadista And Union Man Jack James Larkin Jones
In Refutation Of The British Intelligence Campaign Of Character Assassination
by Manus O’Riordan
and
WHAT IS NORTHERN IRELAND:
PROFESSOR MANSERGH CHANGES HIS MIND
Launch of new book by Brendan Clifford.
What was ‘Northern Ireland’ for? That is a question which has never been considere This book considers what was established in Northern Ireland and why. The why is important. It had—and continues to have—to do with the handling of the bit of Ireland which broke with the Imperial State: an Ireland which had to cope with seeing a national minority misgoverned across the Border. Professor Nicholas Mansergh was a historian, constitutional expert, and part of the inner ruling class of Britain. He wrote a book on Northern Ireland in 1936 which correctly described the constitutional form while misconceiving its politics. In 1983 he altered his opinion of ‘Northern Ireland’ and endorsed an academic description of it as an takes issue with their approach.