Eamonn McCann
'The Legacy Issue: Putting the wrongs of the Northern Ireland
conflict to rights' watch
video
Eamonn McCann will trace the way a local campaign against
injustice and inequality in Derry sparked a more generalised revolt
against the State and led on to 30 years of Trouble. He will assess
the extent to which the events which detonated the Troubles can be
seen as part of the global upsurge of '60s radicalism and whether,
if at all, the subsequent course of the Northern Ireland conflict
fitted into any wider pattern. Was "the struggle" always a matter
of communal rivalry and hostilities? If the Good Friday Agreement
is now seen as the answer, what was the question?
One of the early organisers of the Northern Ireland civil
rights movement, Eamonn McCann has been active in radical politics
for more than 40 years. He currently contributes political columns
to the Belfast Telegraph, the Derry Journal, the music magazine Hot
Press and Socialist Worker. He is chairman of the Bloody Sunday
Trust, a member of the National Executive of the NUJ and of the
Northern Committee of the Irish Congress of Trades
Unions.
This event has been programmed
in collaboration with
Document 8 International Human Rights Documentary
Film Festival
26 - 31 Oct at CCA
Hosted by The School of Fine Art, The Friday Event Lecture
Series is The Glasgow School of Art's flagship public lecture
series, and brings major international speakers (including artists,
architects, designers, historians and cultural theorists) to the
city of Glasgow.
