‘The Gates Flew Open: Peadar O’Donnell, Communism, and the Irish Academy of Letters’.
Fri 4th April 2025, 7pm
An upcoming event hosted by Conradh Na Gaeilge Learpholl and the University of Liverpool's Institute of Irish Studies at Liverpool Irish Centre, including a talk from Caoimhe Withers (Conradh an Gaeilge Learpholl) on her journey with the Irish Language.
Dr Niall Carson (Institute of Irish Studies) will deliver ‘The Gates Flew Open: Peadar O’Donnell, Communism, and the Irish Academy of Letters’. During the ‘Red Scare’ election of 1932, Irish Republican, writer, and agitator, Peadar O’Donnell sued for libel against the Irish Rosary.
This trial, now largely forgotten in Irish history, crystallises many pressing concerns for the new state: censorship, communism, Catholicism and the role of the writer in Irish society.
This talk discusses this trial, Peadar O’Donnell and Ireland at the start of the 1930s.
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