photo galleries
Photographs give a unique insight into the past. They enable us to imagine more vividly what has gone before. The scale of social, political and technological change which has occurred over a relatively short period of time soon becomes apparent. Images of the 1960s civil rights marches in Northern Ireland are an example of photographic history.
Snapshots of street politics in action illustrate the nature of the political struggle in that part of the world in the recent past. The young political activists who carried campaigning banners and manned the barricades have now grown old or are no longer with us.
25 years of the Desmond Greaves Summer School
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25 Years of the Desmond Greaves Summer School (1989-2013)
The Desmond Greaves Summer School is an annual weekend of radical political thought and discussion held each year in Dublin. Most of the photographs in this collection were donated by Charlie Cunningham who is still prominent in the Connolly Association in London. People who gave lectures to the School and others who attended it during the first quarter-century of its existence are featured in this collection.
Northern civil rights
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Northern Civil Rights
The political campaign against discrimination in Northern Ireland was initiated in London by the Connolly Association in the later 1950s. Some photographs have survived from this period and are featured in the collection. The collection also features aspects of the NICRA (Northern Ireland Civil Rights Movement) campaign following that organisation’s foundation in Belfast in 1967 and the Northern civil rights marches that followed.
Heroes of the past
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Heroes of the Past
This collection features people who helped the shape the course of modern history without being discredited by abuses of power. Wolfe Tone, Mahatma Gandhi and Martin Luther King are among the personalities featured.
Wexford connection
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Wexford Connection
Prominent people with a Wexford connection are featured in this collection. Some of them have long moved from Wexford. Patriots, politicians and sports personalities are included. Among them are Father Murphy, the Rackard Brothers and President John F. Kennedy etc.
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The Connolly Association – 1940s to the 1980s
This collection features members of the Connolly Association in Britain and its political activity over a forty-year period. C. Desmond Greaves, T. A. Jackson, Joseph Deighan, Justin Keating, Patrick Dooley, Pat Bond, Jane Tate and Peter Mulligan are among the people featured. Most of the photographs were donated by Anthony Coughlan, C. D. Greaves’s literary executor.
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Photographs of people who fall into the category of Socialist Republican as against Non-socialist Republican are also available on this site. They include Peadar O’Donnell, George Gilmore, Frank Ryan, Desmond Greaves, Kader Asmal and Micheál S.O’Loingsigh.