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Category Archives: films
History of the Irish in Britain Representation Group Part nine: 1989
Patrick Reynolds was one of the founders of IBRG and played a key role in its history. He is now writing up that history and putting it into the context of radical history in Britain and Ireland in the C20th. … Continue reading
Posted in anti-cuts, Bernadette McAliskey, education, feminism, films, human rights, Ireland, Irish second generation, labour history, Manchester, North of Ireland, political women, Salford, Socialism, trade unions, Uncategorized, women, working class history, young people
Tagged Bernadette McAliskey, Death of Donnall MacAmlaigh, IBRG
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History of the Irish in Britain Representation Group Part eight: 1988
Patrick Reynolds was one of the founders of IBRG and played a key role in its history. He is now writing up that history and putting it into the context of radical history in Britain and Ireland in … Continue reading
Posted in education, feminism, films, human rights, Ireland, Irish second generation, labour history, Manchester, North of Ireland, peace campaigns, political women, Socialism, trade unions, Uncategorized, women, working class history, young people
Tagged Birmingham Six, Bloody Sunday March 1988, Diarmuid Breatnach, IBRG, IBRG March for Justice, Lambeth IBRG, Liz Curtis, Manchester IBRG, N.E.Lancs IBRG, Prevention of Terrorism Act
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History of the Irish in Britain Representation Group Part seven: 1987
Patrick Reynolds was one of the founders of IBRG and played a key role in its history. He is now writing up that history and putting it into the context of radical history in Britain and Ireland in … Continue reading
Posted in education, feminism, films, human rights, Ireland, Irish second generation, labour history, Manchester, North of Ireland, political women, Socialism, Socialist Feminism, trade unions, Uncategorized, women, working class history, young people
Tagged an pobal eirithe, Bloody Sunday march 1987, Census and Irish, Diarmuid Breatnach, Gearoid McGearailt, Haringey, ILEA, Irish Mental Health Conference, Manchester IBRG, Press Council
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My review of “Breaking Ground: the story of the London Irish Women’s Centre” ( Michelle Deignan 2013)
On 26 November 1989, as the first woman chair of national Irish organisation, IBRG, I spoke at the 5th London Irish Women’s Conference. Other speakers represented organisations as diverse as pensioners, adult education, Troops Out Movement, Open Line … Continue reading
Posted in Catholicism, education, feminism, films, human rights, Ireland, Irish second generation, labour history, North of Ireland, political women, Socialist Feminism, trade unions, Uncategorized, women, working class history, young people
Tagged Irish in Britain Representation Group, London Irish Women's Centre
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My review of Dayglo: The Poly Styrene Story by Celeste Bell and Zoe Howe
Poly Styrene (3 July 1957 – 25 April 2011), (real name Marianne Joan Elliott-Said) was one of the most unique performers who came out of the punk era. Watch this video here In this affectionate and revealing biography written by … Continue reading
IBRG Archive at the WCML. Out of Ireland. Six Irish Film Festivals 1988-93
Out of Ireland was the name given to six Irish Film Festivals that were initiated by the Manchester branch of the Irish in Britain Representation Group and organised from 1988 to 1993 with the Irish in Manchester History Group and … Continue reading
Posted in Catholicism, drama, education, feminism, films, human rights, Ireland, Irish second generation, labour history, Manchester, North of Ireland, political women, trade unions, TV drama, Uncategorized, women, working class history, young people
Tagged cornerhouse manchester, FIrish Film Festivals, Irish in Britain Representation Group, Kate Magee, Philip Donnellan
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Women in Poland; Putting them back into the story of the Solidarity Movement.
In 1981 riots broke out in Moss Side where I lived. It reflected the oppression experienced by the Afro-Caribbean people in that area; that they were discriminated against in housing, education and employment. After the riots, people like … Continue reading
Posted in Communism, education, feminism, films, human rights, labour history, Manchester, political women, Socialism, Socialist Feminism, trade unions, Uncategorized, women, working class history, young people
Tagged Anna Walentynowicz, Gdansk Shipyard, Poland, Solidarity According to Women, Solidarity Trade Union, Solidarnosc.
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Read my weekly roundup of radical arts and politics…I Daniel Blake,Birdsong; Stories From Pripyat,Off Beat:Jeff Nuttall and the International Underground, Scapegallows
Watch I, Daniel Blake for free next Sunday, 25 September, through this link. Like many of Ken Loach’s films it’s a polemic about the state of society in the UK today. For … Continue reading
Posted in anti-cuts, book review, drama, education, feminism, films, human rights, labour history, Manchester, Socialism, Uncategorized, women, working class history
Tagged Carol Birch, Chernobyl, Daniel Blake, I, Jeff Nuttall
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Read my weekly roundup of radical arts and politics…Hull’s Angel,Guantanamo Boy, Rights not Games Day of Action, Victoria Baths
Watch Hull’s Angel (2002) In post Brexit UK, apparently, there has been an increase in hate crime and racist attacks – not too sure about that – is it the losers of … Continue reading
Posted in anti-cuts, book review, disabled people's campaigns, education, feminism, films, human rights, labour history, political women, Salford, Uncategorized, women, working class history
Tagged Guantanamo Boy, hannah mitchell, Hull's Angel, Rights not Games, Sean McAllister, victoria baths
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Read my weekly roundup of radical arts and politics…julieta, Right to Remain Gathering, Salford and Cheetham Hill in Focus Exhibition and Voices across Borders
Watch julieta the latest film from Pedro Almodovar. I love his films because they take on real issues, and also have actors that look like real people both in size and … Continue reading
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