Maurice J. Casey

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Month: October 2018

Posted on October 11, 2018October 11, 2018 by MJCasey · 1 Comment

Comrade O Comrade: A Forgotten Satire of the British and Irish Left

In 1945, as the world emerged from the Second World War, a popular left-wing author with Irish ancestry sat down in a countryside cottage to write a short book with an unusual premise. Ethel Mannin's Comrade O Comrade, or, Low-Down on the Left was written as a satire of British and Irish radicals during the 'Popular Front' period…

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Dubliners - I'm leading a historical walking tour on 25 February, following in the footsteps of migrants, exiles and refugees from the territories of the Russian Empire who came to Ireland more than a century ago.
Spent today in the National Library reading through the archive of Nannie Dryhurst (1856-1930), a turn-of-the-century Irish anarchist whose “great cause” was Georgian independence.
This Saturday (5th Nov) at the Ulster Folk Museum I will be doing a participatory workshop on how we trace early 20th century Irish queer lives.
If you are around Belfast on 28 October, join me at the QUB Public History Seminar for my talk "Elisa and Joyce: An Irish Jewish Queer Communist Love Story".
Valeria O’Connor (Валерія Олександрівна О’Коннор-Вілінська, 1866-1930) was a Ukrainian nationalist writer of Irish descent and a member of the Ukrainian Rada from 1917 until 1919, when she fled to Vienna with her husband after the Red Army entered Kyiv. Her Irish born grandfather Alexander O’Connor married into Ukrainian nobility in the early 19th century. Valeria’s sister Olga was a founding figure in the Ukrainian National Opera and a friend of the Ukrainian national writer Lesya Ukrainka.
I’ve finally returned to Irish lessons after more than a decade away from the classroom. Time to decolonise… myself.
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