Cork Mayday Lecture

national | history and heritage | event notice Monday April 24, 2006 13:46 by Tom O'Driscoll - Cork Council of Trade Unions

'The Justification of Connolly'

Speaker Manus O'Riordan, Head of Research SIPTU.
Date: May 2nd. 2006
Venue: Metropole Hotel, Mc.Curtain St. Cork
Time: 8pm.
Hosted by the Cork Council of Trade Unions.

Admission free.

Manus O'Riordan will primarily defend Connolly's role in the rising, will outline his vision of democratic socialism, will explore his pro-German stance in World War 1 and negate the theory that his actions were simply that of an insurrectionist.