We must learn from history while living in the present. In this context audio tapes can play an important part in passing on the wisdom of distinguished past Radicals and Democrats who are no longer with us. Often it was their past struggles which pioneered social changes that we welcome or take for granted today.

Although the labour historian C. Desmond Greaves (1913-1988) spoke at many public meetings throughout Ireland and Britain in his fifty years of political activity, there are few recordings of his speeches. Historyonline.ie will make available recordings of the actual words of Greaves and other modern Irish Radicals who contributed to significant developments in recent history.