Seminar by Bernadette McAliskey

cork | rights, freedoms and repression | event notice Sunday January 09, 2011 18:52 by Fiona Dukelow

Bernadette McAliskey will give a seminar on 'Republicanism Revisited - Thomas Paine’s The Rights of Man' at University College Cork on January 24th. This will be held at 4pm, Room G04, Brookfield Health Sciences Complex, College Road.

Bernadette McAliskey, an active civil and human rights campaigner since 1968, describes herself as a socialist republican, feminist and free thinker.

She currently manages STEP, a local community development organisation in Dungannon, Co. Tyrone. She also teaches on the Community Development degree course at the University of Ulster and on the Women’s Studies Programme at the North West Regional College.

She is one of the contributors to 'Mobilising Classics: Reading radical writing in Ireland' (edited by Fiona Dukelow and Orla O’ Donovan, published by Manchester University Press, 2010). The seminar will follow the launch of this book by Professor Pat Coughlan, School of English, UCC.