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James Connolly Festival 2022

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The James Connolly Festival is an annual, week-long series of events in radical arts, culture and politics. This community-centred celebration of music, film, theatre and debate brings together figures and organisations from across Ireland and beyond.

Our aims are to; promote progressive arts, culture and politics; provide a platform for those seeking alternatives in a world that sees the lives of the many, dominated by the few; challenge existing class barriers within the arts and encourage establishing a new narrative.

We celebrate the rich working class culture that exists in Ireland and provide a space for the people of our ever-evolving island to express the wealth of their culture and articulate their experience of life. James Connolly remains Ireland’s foremost working class hero and founder of the Irish trade union movement. It is in his revolutionary spirit and recognition of the importance in culture to transcend society that the festival centres its ethos.

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Monday 09/05, 7pm – Debate 

IRELAND’S HOUSING CRISIS – PUBLIC HOUSING THE SOLUTION 

Eoin O’Broin (Sinn Fein) 

Rory Hearne (Maynooth University) 

Orla Byrne (CATU Ireland) 

Jimmy Doran (Communist Party) 

 

Tickets Free: https://www.eventbrite.ie/e/irelands-housing-crisis-public-housing-the-solution-jcf2022-tickets-308841732937 

Tuesday 10/05, 7pm – History & Culture 

IRISH TRAVELLER HISTORY, CULTURE & MOVEMENTS  

In Association with The New Theatre 

Margaret O’Leary (Southside Travellers Action Group)
Rose Marie Maughan (Irish Traveller Movement)
Bernard Sweeney (Activist)
Mags Casey (Traveller Mental Health Network)

 

Tickets Free: https://www.eventbrite.ie/e/irish-traveller-history-culture-movements-jcf2022-tickets-308857480037 


Wednesday 11/05, 7pm – Discussion 

OVERCOMING SECTARIANISM 

In association with Peadar O’Donnell Socialist Republican Forum 

Gerry Carroll (People Before Profit) 

Caoimhe Ni Loinsigh (Peadar O’Donnell Forum) 

Rev Mark Gray (Presbyterian Church) 

Gearoid O’Machail (Communist Party Ireland) 

Phil Kelly (Communist Party Ireland) 

 

Tickets Free: https://www.eventbrite.ie/e/overcoming-sectarianism-jcf2022-tickets-308860649517 

Thursday 12/05, 7pm – Discussion 

PEACE & IRISH NEUTRALITY 

In association with Peace And Neutrality Alliance 

Edward Horgan (Shannonwatch) 

Clare Daly (MEP) 

Roger Cole (PANA) 

Jimmy Corcoran (Communist Party Ireland) 

 

Tickets Free: https://www.eventbrite.ie/e/peace-irish-neutrality-jcf2022-tickets-308868854057 

Friday 13/05, 8pm – Music & Q&A 

GAZELLEBAND Live with Q&A afterwards 

In association with Ireland Palestine Solidarity Campaign 

Louis (Gazelleband) 

Reem (Gazelleband) 

IPSC (Chair) 

 

Tickets €15: https://www.eventbrite.ie/e/palestinian-culture-as-a-form-of-resistance-w-gazelleband-jcf2022-tickets-308898603037 

 

Saturday May 14th, 4pm – Lecture 

James Connolly Memorial Lecture w/ John Bellamy Foster 

‘Capitalism & The Environmental Crisis’ followed by Q&A 

 John Bellamy Foster 

 

Tickets Free: https://www.eventbrite.ie/e/james-connolly-memorial-lecture-john-bellamy-foster-jcf2022-tickets-308905764457 

Saturday May 14th, 7pm – Film Screening 

‘Keyboard Fantasies’ 

In association with Small Trans Libray 

 

Tickets Free: https://www.eventbrite.ie/e/film-screening-keyboard-fantasies-jcf2022-tickets-308908492617  

 

 

 

Event Dates:
10/05/2022 - 14/05/2022
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