Connolly, the World War, and 1916

national | history and heritage | event notice Wednesday February 22, 2006 13:35 by Nicholas O'Hagan - James Connolly Education Trust (01) 8747981

Speaker: Manus O'Riordan

A public meeting organised by the James Connolly Education Trust.

Tuesday 28 February 2006
8 p.m.

Connolly, the World War, and 1916

Speaker: Manus O’Riordan
(Head of Research, SIPTU, and author of numerous papers and pamphlets on Irish history)

“If these men must die, would it not be better to die in their own
country ghting for freedom for their class, and for the abolition of
war, than to go forth to strange countries and die slaughtering and
slaugh tered by their brothers that tyrants and proteers might
live?”—James Connolly, Forward, 15 August 1914.

Venue: Ireland Institute, 27 Pearse Street, Dublin