THIRTY-SECOND DESMOND GREAVES ANNUAL SCHOOL 2022

Will Podmore - Author of Brexit: the Road to Freedom, British Foreign Policy since 1870, Sovereignty for What? and other books; British trade union activist.

Chair

Patricia McKenna - barrister, plaintiff in the 1995 Supreme Court fair referendum action which held that it was wrong for the Government to spend public money in a one-sided fashion in referendums.

Dr Michael Quinn - author of Irish-Soviet Diplomatic and Friendship Relations 1917-1991, who is currently working on a biography of Desmond Greaves.

Chair

Declan Bree - former TD, Mayor of Sligo and Chair of Sligo County Council; lifelong socialist political and cultural activist.

Dr Karen Devine - lecturer on International Relations and EU affairs at Dublin City University and a former Fulbright scholar.

Dr Ray Bassett - a former Irish diplomat and participant in the Northern peace process. He has written the book Ireland and the EU Post-Brexit and undertaken studies for the Politeia and Policy Exchange think-tanks in Britain.

Dr Ian Malcolm - a commentator providing the Northern Ireland Unionist perspective on current politics; he is an Irish language teacher and lecturer.

Chair

Eoin O Murchú - journalist, broadcaster and campaigner for Irish sovereignty.