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Audio from the launch of 'The Lost Revolution'

category dublin | arts and media | news report author Friday September 11, 2009 12:27author by Andrew - WSM (personal capacity) Report this post to the editors

Last night saw the launch of a new history of the Offical IRA and the Workers Party called ‘The Lost Revolution’ by Brian Hanley and Scott Miller. Over 250 people including many ex and current members of the Workers Party as well as members of just about every other left and republican group crammed into the hall for the launch. This is an audio recording of the introduction to the book given by Diarmaid Ferriter followed by each of the authors speaking about the book.
The authors
The authors

The notes below is my very quick summary of some of the areas talked about by the speakers.

Diarmaid Ferriter, Chair of Modern History UCD
terrific atmosphere in here, a testiment to the commitment people have had to change Ireland
we are living in difficult times
the authors have managed to untangle the web of the Official IRA and Workers Party from late 60's on
10 years after the border campaign Mick Ryan after a national tour of the IRA said 'there is no movement', Cathal Goulding replied "there is a fucking movement", the authors suggest these sort of frank exchanges were need to rejuvinate movement
the books transmits the sense of being part of a worldwide movement in 1968, on the verge of profound change
book is a reminder of the lost opportunites of those years
tremendous sadness in the book about the violence and feuds of 1970's
it covers the debate about waging a 'clean war', was this ever a possibility or was it just an excuse
the Aldershot bombing and 'mistakes'
the drowning out of the intellectual debates in the sound of gunfire
much of what was said then now sounds absurd
the Provisional v Official feud of October 75 that left 11 dead and over 50 injured
Seamus Costello and the EU referendum
the emergence of SFWP after 1977 and the influence on the unions
the continuing activities of 'group b'
Eoghan Harris and 'attempts to change the script'
The 1989 election and the 'breadth of fresh air'
Being on the verge of a new left alliance
the continuance of 'special activities'
journalists doing their job
an attention to detail that never becomes overbearing

Brian Hanley, author
it was humbling to be welcomed into the homes of people we had never met before who were willing to share documents and memories
I hope we have done justice to their story
There is a tendency to sneer at the Irish left as headbangers - I hope no one comes away from our book thinking these people were mad

Scott Miller, author
thanked particular people in the audience whose lives are tied into the republican movement
Lost Revolution was written as a narrative, not a critique
Sean Garland lives under fear of extradition to USA on very dubious charges, he wants to live out his old age in peace in his own land.

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Diarmaid Ferriter, Chair of Modern History UCD introduces book
Diarmaid Ferriter, Chair of Modern History UCD introduces book

One half of the hall - standing room only
One half of the hall - standing room only



author by Citizen Pat - nonepublication date Wed Sep 30, 2009 00:32author address author phone Report this post to the editors

just read the book, Lost Revolution,
what a missed oppertunity it was not to have a united left -warts and all.
If we ever needed a Workers Party -it is now .
Gilmores Labour ,Kennys FineGale and Cowens Fianna Fail are all in line (and singing from the same hymn sheet) on the Lisbon Treaty . The Workers Party never recovered from the blow dealt by DeRossa Rabbitte Gilmore etc -what was known about for years became an embarrassment when they started becoming part of the center/right establishment , trading in what the party was working on for a need for respectability ....

 
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