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Peadar O'Donnell Socialist Republican Forum

01/02/2025

Parliament, Streets or Both

Socialist republicans discuss the strategy necessary to build a socialist republic in Ireland. They ask whether the struggle should be exclusively in Parliament or in the streets or both.

35 min
12/05/2024

90 years of Connolly Books ... Dublin's oldest radical bookshop

90 years of Connolly Books ... Dublin's oldest radical bookshop December 2022, saw Dublin's oldest radical bookshop celebrated its 90th anniversary. Owned and managed by the Communist Party of Ireland, the shop stocks one of the best selections of radical and left-wing books available in Ireland. In this episode two celebrated historians recount the history of the bookshop during an event held to mark the occasion. They are joined by long time and recently retired General Secretary of the CPI, Eugene McCartan, as he tells of the shop's ethos and steadfast support for working class eduction.

53 min
12/01/2023

The 1867 Fenian Proclamation

On Tuesday 5 March 1867, the Irish Republican Brotherhood (the Fenian Movement) published a Proclamation Of The Irish Republic, prior to attempting the overthrow of British rule in Ireland. This document is now an item of historic interest albeit with some obvious current relevance.

4 min
01/08/2022

Discussing the Century of Reaction

Writing in the Irish Worker on 14 March 1914, James Connolly said of the mooted partitioning of Ireland Such a scheme as that agreed to by Redmond and Devlin, the betrayal of the national democracy of industrial Ulster would mean a carnival of reaction both North and South, would set back the wheels of progress, would destroy the oncoming unity of the Irish Labour movement and paralyse all advanced movements whilst it endured. In this episode the Peadar O'Donnell Socialist Republican Forum convenes a discussion reflecting on the century following the 1922 Treaty and the solidification of partition ... as Connolly had predicted, a century of reaction. This conversation is chaired by political activist Patricia Campbell who is joined by Niall Bowen of the Tyrone Peoples' Dáil, Graham Harrington from the Communist Party of Ireland and Caoimhe NíLoinsigh a member of the Forum.

37 min
01/01/2022

The Century of Reaction

Writing in the Irish Worker on 14 March 1914, James Connolly said of the mooted partitioning of Ireland Such a scheme as that agreed to by Redmond and Devlin, the betrayal of the national democracy of industrial Ulster would mean a carnival of reaction both North and South, would set back the wheels of progress, would destroy the oncoming unity of the Irish Labour movement and paralyse all advanced movements whilst it endured. In this episode for the Peadar O'Donnell Socialist Republican Forum, noted historian Fearghal MacBhloscaidh addresses the events that cemented partition and the immediate impact it had on Irish society; an impact that has led to a century of reaction.

35 min
11/10/2021

The rationale behind the Mother and Baby homes scandal in Ireland

A recent RTE TV documentary highlighted the horrors inflicted on thousands of women and children in Ireland's 'Magdalene Laundries' (institutions run by orders of nuns for women who were deemed as "fallen" by society) for decades after the foundation of the 26-County state. In this short podcast we ask why the state tolerated and indeed facilitated such cruel behaviour.

4 min
10/29/2021

Combatting those who would pollute the earth

To coincide with the COP26 in Glasgow, the Peadar O'Donnell Socialist Republican Forum's Patricia Campbell interviews two leading environmentalists ... Seán McBrearty of the US based group ' Oil and Water Don't Mix' and Fidelma o'Kane of the Irish group 'Save Our Sperrins'.

43 min
08/09/2021

Fine Gael and a united Ireland

Examining how the Fine Gael party view the prospect of Irish unity.

7 min

Peadar O'Donnell Socialist Republican Forum

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Tommy McKearney
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2020 - 2025
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