Come Here To Me!

The Cobblestone has become the favourite haunt of those with an interest in social and political history, with the Stoneybatter & Smithfield People’s History Project and others hosting meetings there. Another group of individuals have organised a great talk there for this Thursday, looking at radical politics in the late 1960s and into the 1970s.

The organisers of this meeting have been doing brilliant work in recent times recording the memories of some who were active in radical politics at the time, for example interviewing veteran republican Liam Sutcliffe, who participated in the explosion which destroyed the O’Connell Street monument of Admiral Nelson. They have also interviewed Jim Lane, who has a long history of activism in socialist-republican politics in Cork. These interviews are an invaluable resource to those interested in this aspect of Irish history.