19th Desmond Greaves Summer School

dublin | miscellaneous | event notice Wednesday August 08, 2007 12:36 by Frank Keoghan - Desmond Greaves Summer School 087 230 8330

Labour and Republicanism - The Way Forward?

This year, the Nineteenth Desmond Greaves School will consider the theme: ‘Labour and Republicanism – The Way Forward?’ It will be held in the ATGWU Hall at 55 Middle Abbey St, Dublin 1, from Friday, August 24th to Sunday, August 26th. The School will discuss republicanism as a political philosophy, the relationships and tensions between nationalism, republicanism, and socialism, and how republicanism and labour cna contribute to progressive change in today's Ireland. Against this background, the Republican Congress of the 1930s and the career of Peadar O'Donnell will be reassessed. Among the speakers will be Dr Martin Mangergh, Dr. Eddie Hyland, Eamon Gilmore, Tom Hartley, Eoin O Murchu and Emmet O’ Connor.
Further information from 087-230 8330.

The Nineteenth Desmond Greaves School 2007

Labour and Republicanism – The Way Forward?

Venue: ATGWU Hall, 55 Middle Abbey St., Dublin.

• Friday, August 24th 2007 at 7:30pm:
Republicanism – A Subversive Ideology? :

Eddie Hyland lectures in the Department of Political Science at TCD. He is the author of Democratic Theory: the Philosophical Foundations and a study of James Connolly in the Historical Association of Ireland’s Life and Times Series.
Chair: Vincent Morley is the author of Irish Opinion and the American Revolution 1760–1783 and other works.

• Saturday, August 25th at 11:00am:
The 1930’s Republican Congress.

Emmet O’Connor is a historian specialising in labour history in Ireland. He is the author of Reds and the Green - Ireland, Russia and the Communist Internationals, 1919–43, and Syndicalism in Ireland, 1917–1923.

Chair: Manus O’Riordan is Head of Research, SIPTU, and author of numerous papers and pamphlets on Irish history.

• Saturday, August 25th at 2:30pm:
Socialism, Nationalism and Republicanism: Ideologies in Conflict?

Eoin Ó Murchú, Dáil correspondent of Raidió na Gaeltachta.

Seamas Ó Brógáin, member of the Executive Committee of the Communist Party of Ireland.

Finbar Cullen, Director of the Ireland Institute.

Chair: Sinéad Ní Bhroin is a writer and a political activist with Sinn Féin.

• Sunday, August 26th at 11:00am:
Peadar O’Donnell—Socialist and Republican: A Reassessment.

Peter Hegarty is a writer and broadcaster, and author of Peadar O’Donnell and Paddy Bogside (with Paddy Doherty).

Chair: Declan Bree is an alderman and former TD and Mayor of Sligo.

• Sunday, August 26th at 2:30pm:
Republicanism and Labour in Ireland today: Interaction and Potential.

Eamon Gilmore TD, former Minister of State at the Department of the Marine. He is currently the Labour Party spokesperson on the Environment & Local Government.

Eddie Glackin is an official with SIPTU.

Tom Hartley is a former general secretary and national chairperson of Sinn Féin.

Senator Martin Mansergh is a historian and has played a leading role in formulating Fianna Fáil policy on Northern Ireland and the peace process.

Chair: Eamon Devoy is a trade union official and member of the Executive Committee of ICTU.

Further information:
Director: Frank Keoghan. 087- 230 8330. frank.keoghan@gmail.com