THIRTY FOURTH DESMOND GREAVES ANNUAL SCHOOL 2024

Peter Ramsay - Professor of Law, London School of Economics. Co-Editor of the online journal of democracy, “Northern Star”. Co- author of “Taking Control: Sovereignty and Democracy after Brexit”.

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Anthony Coughlan - National Platform. Associate Professor Emeritus in Social Policy at Trinity College Dublin. Member of the Committee of the Desmond Greaves Summer School.

Dr Michael Quinn - is currently writing a biography of Desmond Greaves; author of “Irish-Soviet Diplomatic and Friendship Relations 1917-1991”.

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Daltún O’Ceallaigh - writer on history, philosophy and politics. Former General Secretary of Irish Federation of University Teachers. Was active in the Northern Ireland Civil Rights Association.

Dr Helena Sheehan - has been active in Left-wing politics since the 1960’s. Professor Emeritus at DCU. Was a Visiting Professor at the University of Cape Town. Historian of science, philosophy, culture and politics.

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Mick O’Reilly - former Irish Secretary of the ATGWU, now UNITE; author of From Lucifer to Lazarus, a Life on the Left; committee member of the Greaves Weekend School.

Dr Karen Devine - is a Lecturer in International Relations at DCU. She is author of numerous articles on EU politics and Irish defence and foreign policy. She is an authority on Irish neutrality policy and also writes on gender and education issues.

Horst Teuber - is an editor with the German Foreign Policy Group providing specialist news and analysis of developments in Germany and the EU from a democratic and internationalist perspective.

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John Maguire - retired Professor of Sociology at University College Cork. Peace and international development activist of long standing. Has written works on Irish defence policy in the context of EU militarization.