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Month: January 2017

Posted on January 2, 2017June 4, 2017 by MJCasey · 1 Comment

A 1927 Soviet take on Irish Literature and Liam O’Flaherty

  A 1927 Russian-language edition of Liam O'Flaherty's The Informer. During the interwar period, Liam O'Flaherty became perhaps the most widely translated contemporary Irish writer in the Soviet Union. In 1927, a Russian-language edition of his novel The Informer was published by the state publishing house based in Moscow. I have translated a review of this book,…

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For sale: “Big Fella”. Never hung.
Look out for the next issue of @tribuneuk - I’ve got an article on Donegal-born writer and socialist Margaret Barrington, who authored Tribune’s first women’s column in the 1930s. Pretty amazing to be sharing a magazine with the likes of David Harvey, Jeremy Corbyn and rising political stars like Zarah Sultana.
Neil Hamilton Goold Verschoyle (1904-1987). Born into a wealthy Anglo-Irish family, Neil became a communist and republican. He lived in Moscow from 1930-33 and married a Russian woman, Irina Dolrova, with whom he had two children. From 1933, the family were separated by war, internment and the suspicions of Soviet authorities until their reunion in Moscow in 1959. Goold donated part of his inheritance to the Communist Party of Ireland, who used it to purchase their Temple Bar HQ, today known as Connolly Books. Neil’s younger brother Brian was abducted by the NKVD in 1937 and disappeared into the GULAG system.
A 1976 Soviet cartoon depicting Rev Ian Paisley, “ringleader of the Protestant ultras”, blessing weapons to be used against “Catholic workers”.
Ivan Bilibin, St Petersburg born artist with a thing for Russo-Irish women. In 1912, a year after divorcing Maria Chambers, born in St Petersburg to an Irish father, he married Reneé O’Connell, the granddaughter of Daniel O’Connell.
Not really into social media historian beefs but this man should have no credibility in pronouncing upon the “decline of history”. Figures like Ferguson shout about an imagined “overt politicisation” because the real politicisation of history they are engaged in is increasingly covert.
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