A Rare photograph of Marxist and Saor Éire activist Máirín Keegan with Eamonn McCann during the interruption of the premiere of A State of Chassis at Dublin’s Peacock Theatre in 1970. June 6, 2016
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A Rare photograph of Marxist and Saor Éire activist Máirín Keegan with Eamonn McCann during the interruption of the premiere of A State of Chassis at Dublin’s Peacock Theatre in 1970.
Many thanks to the Irish Republican Marxist History Project for sending it on, there’s a piece on the protest and more photos there.
The Cedar Lounge Revolution 
Crying out for speech bubbles……..
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REMEMBERING MÁIRÍN KEEGAN, 1932-1972. https://irishrepublicanmarxisthistoryproject.wordpress.com/2013/10/27/remembering-mairin-keegan-1932-1972/
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Eamonn “yeah and then Tariq Ali said to me”
Mairin: “I think you dropped something there”
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I was not in Dublin at the time of the review/protest and do not know the nature of the offensive sketch(es). I expect E.McCann MLA could tell us, but only a few others.
The photograph has survived better.
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During the interruption or the interval?
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Talking of photos,John O’Dowd has posted on twitter a photo of the new SF mayor of Craigavon.Is he the most unlikely looking mayor in these islands?
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This I have to see, got a link Roddy?
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WBS, go to John O’Dowds twitter account.I don’t know how to post it here.
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This one?
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So you’re letting hipsters into the party now, Roddy?
Where will it end? I guess you can claim that beards were always a accessory.
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he looks more like a neckbeard than a hipster to me.
When he’s introduced to Her Majesty the Queen, he can tip his fedora and say “m’lady”.
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Does he like dogs?
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Thats it!
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Gee. He has a top hat – but where is the orange sash?
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By the looks of that picture, Ms Keegan isn’t falling for whatever guff young McCann is coming out with. And what’s with the collection boxes. Did they collect as they protested?
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Or were they collecting for Peter’s Pence? And did they hand out pinhead or sticky flags to donors?
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Mairin Keegan is described as a Marxist but Eamonn McCann is not. Why is that?
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Because Eamonn McCann’s reputation precedes him, like the bouquet of a fine wine.
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Chateau McCann appellation contrôlée
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Ah a “fine wine”. Would that be the reason that Eamon is “all over the place” and has “as many faces as the Albert clock”!
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While we’re on that simile, how successful were establishment efforts to stop the Albert clock leaning to the left? 🙂
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Eamon gets special treatment from the establishment.When he and several others including dissos appeared in court a couple of years back ,the rest had to wear forensic suits while Eamon was exempted from this “humiliation”.
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Really interesting
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