THIRTY FIFTH DESMOND GREAVES ANNUAL SCHOOL 2025

Vijay Prashad - Executive director of the Tricontinental Institute for Social Research; internationally known author and commentator documenting Global South anti-imperialist resistance and democratic alternatives to current Big Power policies. .

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Clare Daly - Former TD and MEP, long- standing political activist known for her anti-war stance, advocacy of Palestinian rights, opposition to EU militarization and social justice campaigning.

Dr John Gray - Former director of the Linen Hall Library, Belfast; historian specialising in Irish radicalism, Belfast’s political past and the preservation of Ulster’s dissident cultural archives; founding member of the Reclaim the Enlightenment group.

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Margaret Ward - Honorary Senior Lecturer in History, Queen’s University Belfast; leading feminist historian, author of Unmanageable Revolutionaries: Women and Irish Nationalism and other books.

Senator Chris Andrews - Sinn Fein.

Peadar Tóibín TD - Aontú.

Sinéad Gibney TD - Social Democrats.

Paul Murphy TD - People Before Profit.

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Stephen Kelly - Chair of PANA (The Peace and Neutrality Alliance), solicitor, opponent of EU militarization and Irish ties with NATO.

Philip O’Connor - Historian and political analyst; regular contributor to the Irish Political Review; authority on Palestine.

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Dr Helena Sheehan - Professor Emeritus DCU; Visiting professor, University of Cape Town and Peking University, Beijing; historian of science, philosophy, culture and politics.