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William Partridge Memorial Lecture in labour history
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Monday June 05, 2006 14:04
by Fionnuala Waldron - Inchicore Village Festival (Community Arts)
fjwaldron at gmail dot com
Annual Lecture Series in honour of William Partridge.
‘ “Noël Browne can say what he likes about the Pope”: Labour and Religion in Ireland’ by Dr. Niamh Puirséil. Inchicore Village Festival. Kilmainham Gaol, Tuesday, June 20th at 7.30. For more information contact fjwaldron@gmail.com
The William Partridge Memorial Lecture in labour history was inaugurated in 2000 to commemorate the life of William Partridge. Born in Sligo in 1874, Partridge spent his adult life in Inchicore as an active trade unionist and socialist. He was a founder member of the Irish Labour Party and fought with the Irish Citizen Army during the 1916 Rising. He died in 1917, his early death precipitated by his experience of imprisonment after the Rising. This year's lecture will be given by Dr. Niamh Puirséil.
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Kilmainham Gaol, Tuesday 20 June at 7.30 p.m.
'Noel Browne can say what he likes about the Pope', Labour and Religion in
Ireland
by Dr. Niamh Puirseil.
Chairperson: Tom Wall
ABSTRACT
It has often been said of the Irish Labour Party that it was little more
than the political wing of the St Vincent de Paul organisation. This religious
influence is certainly not unique to the Labour Party in this country. After
all, it is said of the Labour Party in Britain that it owes more to Methodism
than Marx. This paper traces the impact of religion on the Labour Party's
policies and rhetoric over the decades from the Protestant influences of
the Labour leadership in the 1920s to the Cold War Catholicism of 1950s to the
influence of Pope John XXIII in the 1960s.
Niamh Puirséil is a graduate of UCD and has worked as a research fellow in
the Centre for Contemporary Irish History, Trinity College Dublin. She is Vice
President of the Irish Labour History Society and an editor of the ILHS journal
Saothar. Her book, The Irish Labour Party, 1922-1973 will be published later
this year by UCD Press.
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