Irish anarchist history explored in latest issue of History Ireland
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Thursday March 27, 2008 20:42
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Article by historian Fintan Lane on Dublin anarchism in the 1880s and 1890s
The March/April issue of the magazine History Ireland contains a major article on Irish anarchists in the late nineteenth-century that should be of interest to today's anarchist activists.
The title is '"Practical anarchists, we": social revolutionaries in Dublin, 1885-7'
In Ireland and Britain in the 1880s, the Fenians occupied the demonic role of 'terrorists' in the recesses of the bourgeois mind, and less attention was paid to terrorists of the radical left. Historian Fintan Lane relates how anarchists, though scarcely noticed, were nevertheless active in Ireland and argued openly for social revolution, though not for 'individual terror'.
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Comments (2 of 2)
Jump To Comment: 1 2Worth reading on this issue is Lane's book "The Origins of Modern Irish Socialism".
Yep, article details the activities of Dublin anarchists in the 1880s like Michael Gabriel, Fritz Schumann, Thomas Fitzpatrick and John O'Gorman. Also mentions visits to Dublin by Max Nettlau and Dr John Creagh.
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