Jay Carax will be in Manchester for the next two months but he’s hoping to post irregularly on Dublin and Irish related topics.
Found this today while helping to catalogue some of the Young Communist League papers.
Connolly Association (1976). Scanned by Jay Carax.
The next file was a letter from the Young Communist League (YCL) to the Connolly Association asking them why Ken Brinson was down to speak as he hadn’t been asked! I’m not sure if the problem was resolved.
The other intended speakers were Ken Maloney (Connolly Youth Movement, Dublin), C. Desmond Greaves (Editor, Irish Democrat) and Brian Nicholson (T. & G. W. U.)
I can’t find anymore information online about Ken Brinson or Ken Maloney. Though I was saddened to find out that Brian Nicholson might have been a M15 informant at some point.
[Funny to think that in the backdrop of this march and others like it, punk was rearing its head across the city during the hottest summer in the UK since records began]
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Sorry to reply to a blog from such a long time ago, but I came across this whilst looking for details on Ken Brinson. I’ve found a very good picture of him at a demonstration in Croydon in 1978, available at the Bishopsgate. According to the comrade who identified him to me, he held a PhD in Chemistry. I can’t find any details to confirm this at present, but I’ve also been told that his body was found badly mutilated beneath Brighton pier – presumably murdered. I found a record for his death in the London Gazette: https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/52680/page/15302/data.pdf (14th July 1991)
Hi Dan. Thanks for such an interesting but sad comment. RIP Ken Brinson.