Seamus Costello - Commemoration and Exhibition

[C. Flower]

The Seamus Costello Memorial Committee will be holding the annual Seamus Costello commemorative evening, including a talk and an exhibition on Seamus's revolutionary life, on Saturday October 6th 2012 at 7pm in Newtown Community hall in Newtownmountkennedy, Co. Wicklow.

Seamus Costello

The Seamus Costello Memorial Committee will be holding the annual Seamus Costello commemorative evening, including a talk and an exhibition on Seamus's revolutionary life, on Saturday October 6th 2012 at 7pm in Newtown Community hall in Newtownmountkennedy, Co. Wicklow.

The committee wish to send out an invitation to all, whether political or not to attend the evening to celebrate and commemorate Wicklow’s native son Seamus Costello – a man of vision, who was brutally murdered in Dublin on October 5 th 1977.

The committee is also putting a call out to anyone who would like to lend any material for the Seamus Costello Revolutionary Life Exhibition.

For more information and to get involved
Please contact Sean Doyle on 089 4648761, or email seamuscostello.mc@gmail.com.

http://www.indymedia.ie/article/102395

[C. Flower]

[Sam Lord]

It woud be nice to have a report on this from someone who was there.

[Jolly Red Giant]

Why the hell have the likes of Ruan O'Donnell at this?

[Sam Lord]

Why the hell have the likes of Ruan O'Donnell at this?

If it is the same person he seems to be an established historian.

Dr Ruan O'Donnell is the Head of History at Limerick University and the author of several books, including a two-volume biography of Robert Emmet (Irish Academic Press, 2003) and 'The Irish Famine' (O'Brien Press, 2008). Last year also saw the publication of 'The Impact of the Easter Rising' (Irish Academic Press, 2008) edited by Dr O'Donnell.

He is a member of the Irish Manuscripts Commission and a frequent contributor to historical documentaries on Irish Radio and TV. Last year he appeared in the popular BBC series 'Who Do You Think You Are' in the programme focussing on the ancestry of TV presenter and comedian Graham Norton.

Dr O'Donnell is also a member of the organising committee of the Dublin-based Desmond Greaves Summer School and a regular contributor to the Irish Democrat, the on-line publication of the Connolly Association.

[Sam Lord]

This seems to be from the previous year:

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L80cOq_7u4A&feature=relmfu"]Ruan O'Donnell on Seamus Costello - YouTube[/ame]

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xzTcENakh6k&feature=relmfu"]Ruán O'Donnell on Seamus Costello 2 of 3 - YouTube[/ame]

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WMqYDwKJ0uc"]Ruán O'Donnell on Seamus Costello 3 of 3 - YouTube[/ame]

[Jolly Red Giant]

If it is the same person he seems to be an established historian.

O'Donnell is an arrogant buffoon - he is an ass who is up his own rear end and one of the worst historians (writing on Irish history) I have ever encountered (second only to Berresford-Ellis). Costello (for all my differences with his political positions) deserves to have someone better speaking at his commemoration.

[Sam Lord]

O'Donnell is an arrogant buffoon - he is an ass who is up his own rear end and one of the worst historians (writing on Irish history) I have ever encountered (second only to Berresford-Ellis). Costello (for all my differences with his political positions) deserves to have someone better speaking at his commemoration.

Was there any particular published work of his that you considered to be bad history?