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  • C. Desmond Greaves
    • An Obituary Essay
    • Desmond Greaves & the Origins of the Civil Rights Movement in Northern Ireland
    • C.Desmond Greaves: a political evaluation
    • Memories of Desmond Greaves
      • Deaglán de Bréadún, Dublin
      • Gerard Curran, Ludlow, Shropshire, England.
      • Bernard (Barney) Morgan, Liverpool
      • Helga MacLiam, Dublin
      • Seán Redmond, Dublin
      • Eddie Cowman, Dublin
      • Cathal MacLiam, Dublin
      • Fionnula MacLiam, Dublin
      • Alisoun Morton, Edinburgh
      • Ken Keable, London
      • Mick O’Reilly, Dublin
      • Tony Donaghey, London
      • Roy Johnston, Dublin
      • Peter Berresford Ellis, London
      • Kevin McCorry, Belfast and Wexford
      • Muriel Saidlear, Dublin
      • Peter Mulligan, Northampton
      • John Boyd, London
      • Eamon McLaughlin, London and Coleraine
      • Patsy Thomson, Glasgow
      • Sean Kenny,  Birmingham 
      • George S. Davies, Lancashire
      • Howard Kelsey, Norwich
    • Ireland’s Marxist Historians
  • Books
    • The Life & Times of James Connolly
    • The Irish Crisis
    • Wolfe Tone and the Irish Nation
    • Sean O’Casey: Politics and Art
    • ITGWU: The formative years, 1909-1923
    • The Easter Rising in Song & Ballad
  • Articles & Pamphlets
    • Against the EU
      • To Hell with the EEC [1972]
      • Thoughts on Socialism, Nationalism and Partition Today [1977]
      • National Sovereignty and the Defence of the Nation State [1985 and 1986]
      • Need for a British Sovereignty Movement [1988]
      • Europe Without America? …John Palmer    [1988]
      • EU Elections: Apathy as a Form of Protest    [1979]
      • When is a country not a country?
      • Damn the EU: We want our country…The 1986 Single European Act          [1987]
    • Nation, Nationalism, Socialism
      • England’s Responsibility for the Crisis in Ireland
      • The National Problem in Britain
      • Thoughts on Socialism, Nationalism and Partition today
      • Class and Nation in Early 20th Century Ireland
      • Foreword to Marx and Engels on Ireland
      • The National Question
    • Dialectics of Nature/Environment
      • The Dialectics of Nature
      • Planet Earth, Paradise Lost          [1987]
      • Science Item: The weight of a pound of feathers     [1986]
    • Literature & Culture
      • In Defence of Brendan Behan
      • Ireland in English Literature
    • Northern Ireland Civil Rights
      • England’s Responsibility for the Crisis in Ireland [1972]
      • Irish Marxism [1980]
      • Paisleyism and ‘Progress’ [1966]
      • Thoughts on the ‘Ulster’ Convention [1975]
      • Toryism plus the Orange Order [1974]
      • Northern Ireland: Civil Rights and Political Wrongs [1969]
        • The Bill of Rights Petition  [February 1970]
      • The “Northern Ireland” Police State [1961]
      • Our Plan to End Partition [1962]
      • The Irish Question and the British People [1963]
      • They Mutilated Ireland – an election pamphlet [1964]
      • Stormont the puppet – a brief study in legal codology (1965)   
      • The Belfast Civil Rights Conference             [1965]
      • The Campaign for Democracy in Ulster / CDU    [1965]
      • An Exchange With N.I. Premier Terence O’Neill    [1966]
      •  The Bill of Rights Demand          [July 1968]
      • The Three-Pronged Attack [September 1968]
      • The Derry Civil Rights March [5 October 1968]
      • Civil Rights and National Freedom … London Conference     [March 1969]
      • The People’s Democracy and the NICRA resignations    [March  1969]
      • Northern Ireland Bill of Rights: Text and Explanation [1971-72] 
      • Six-County Crisis: Causes and Cure              [May 1969]
      • #3067 (no title)
      • The August 1969 Events in Belfast      [August 1969]
      • The Provisional IRA  [1987]            
    • Anglo-Irish Relations
      • England’s Responsibility for the Crisis in Ireland
      • Ireland and the War Alliance
      • Neo-Colonialism and Ireland
      • The Anglo-Irish Trade Agreement
      • British Labour and the Irish Question [In 1987]
      • How Britain Partitioned Ireland 
      • The policy behind Mrs Thatchers’ encouragement of “Irish Studies” 
    • Irish History & Politics
      • Neo-Colonialism and Ireland
      • Rebel Countess Constance Markiewicz and the Women’s struggle
      • Reflections on the Fiftieth Anniversary of the Easter Rising
      • Insurrection in Irish History
      • Irish Class Relations 1920s-1960
      • 1916 As History
      • Writing a history of the ITGWU
    • James Connolly
      • Connolly and Easter Week: A Rejoinder to John Newsinger
      • James Connolly (1868-1916) Marxist
      • Academicizing Connolly
      • James Connolly and Trade Unionism
      • James Connolly’s Intellectual Achievements
      • Connolly’s Works Collected But Incomplete
      • Discovering Connolly’s Real Birthplace 
      • Desmond Greaves’s Research Correspondence re James Connolly’s Birthplace and British Army Service
      • Publications of the Writings of James Connolly – A 1980s Appraisal
      • Review of Austen Morgan’s“James Connolly, a political biography”
      • Japanese scholar’s listing of Connolly’s works /  Dr Conor McCabe   
      • Connolly’s British Army service: Conor McCabe / Anthony Coughlan / Shay Cody 
    • Liam Mellows
      • Liam Mellows
    • Sean O’Casey
      • The Political Evolution of Sean O’Casey
      • Sean O’Casey and socialism
      • Recollections of Sean O’Casey by C.D. Greaves
      • Three letters from Sean O’Casey to Desmond Greaves 
    • British History & Politics
      • Scotland and the struggle for Irish freedom 
      • The “Economism” of the British Left
      • This Augean Stable: US and UK foreign policy in the 1980s under Reagan/Thatcher [1987]
      • Economism” and “Terrorism”: The roots of  IRA violence  [1979]
      • Irish Emigration to Britain  [1987]   
    • Connolly Association
      • What is the Connolly Association?
        • Construction Industry Jungle: Freedom to Mangle Workers     [1987]
      • Alliance for Irish Freedom
      • Reminiscences of the Connolly Association
      • The Irish in Britain – 1970s
      • Irish Studies in 1980s Britain [1988]
      • Opposing the IRA’s bombs in Britain                   [1975]
      • Irish Emigration
    • World Politics
      • October and the British Empire
    • Historical Personages
      • Daniel O’Connell: Brain-washing with the Liberator [1975]
      • Ernie O’Malley – the great non-political guerrilla
      • Conor Cruise O’Brien
      • A reminiscence of D.N.Pritt
      • Father Michael O’Flanagan; Republican Priest
      • Feargus O’Connor: Lion of Freedom                  [1955]
      • James Larkin: The Great Agitator
      • Desmond Ryan:  an appreciation
      • Isaac Butt: Twixt O’Connell and Parnell
      • Willie Gallacher, former MP
      • Ben Owens R.I.P
      • Tom Johnson, Irish Labour leader . . . A comment by C. D. Greaves
      • Robert Boyle, Earl of Cork
      • Saints Brendan, Columcille and Columbanus
      • Erskine Childers
      • C.S. Parnell (1846-1891)
      • Geoffrey Bing (1909-1977)
      • Eleanor Marx (1855-1898)
      • Pat Devine    (1898-1973)
      • James Larkin’s Correct Date of Birth: 1874 
      • General Sir Hubert Gough    (1870-1963)
  • Verse
    • Four Letter Verses and The Mountbatten Award
    • Elephants Against Rome
    • By The Clock ‘Tis Day
  • Journal
    • Desmond Greaves Journal, Vol.1, 1933-4
    • Desmond Greaves Journal, Vol. 2, 1934-5
    • Desmond Greaves Journal, Vol. 3, 1935
    • Desmond Greaves Journal, Vol. 4, 1936-37, 1944
    • Desmond Greaves Journal, Vol. 5, 1939
    • Desmond Greaves Journal, Vol. 6, 1942
    • Desmond Greaves Journal, Vol. 7, 1945-46
    • Desmond Greaves Journal, Vol. 8, 1946
    • Desmond Greaves Journal, Vol. 9, 1949-50
    • Desmond Greaves Journal, Vol.10, 1951
    • Desmond Greaves Journal Vol.11,1953-4, 1956
    • Desmond Greaves Journal, Vol.12, 1956-7
    • Desmond Greaves Journal, Vol.13, 1957, 1960-61
    • Desmond Greaves Journal, Vol.14, 1962-4
    • Desmond Greaves Journal, Vol. 15, Apr-Dec 1964
    • Desmond Greaves Journal, Vol.16, Jan.-Oct. 1965
    • Desmond Greaves Journal, Vol.17, 1965-66
    • Desmond Greaves Journal, Vol. 18, 1966-67
    • Desmond Greaves Journal, Vol.19,1967-68
    • Desmond Greaves Journal, Vol. 20, 1968-69
    • Desmond Greaves Journal, Vol. 21 1969-70
    • Desmond Greaves Journal, Vol.22, 1970-71
    • Desmond Greaves Journal, Vol. 23, 1971-72
    • Desmond Greaves Journal, Vol.24, 1972-73  
    • Desmond Greaves Journal, Vol. 25, 1973-74
    • Desmond Greaves Journal, Vol. 26, 1974-5
    • Desmond Greaves Journal, Vol. 27, 1975-76
    • Desmond Greaves Journal, Vol. 28,1976-77                      
    • Desmond Greaves Journal, Vol. 29, 1978-79
    •  Desmond Greaves Journal, Vol. 30, 1979-81 
    • Desmond Greaves Journal, Vol. 31, 1981-82
    • Desmond Greaves Journal, Vol. 32, 1983
    • Desmond Greaves Journal, Vol. 33, Jan. – Nov.1984 
    • Desmond Greaves Journal, Vol. 34, 1984-85
    • Desmond Greaves Journal, Vol. 35, 1985-86
    • Desmond Greaves Journal, Vol. 36, 1986-87
    • Desmond Greaves Journal, Vol. 37, 1987-88
    • Desmond Greaves Journal, Vol. 38, 1988
  • Table-Talk
  • Irish Democrat Archive
    • Irish Freedom 1939-1944
      • 1939
        • January 1939
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      • 1941
        • January 1941
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        • May 1941
        • June 1941
        • August 1941
        • September 1941
        • October – November 1941
        • December 1941
      • 1942
        • January 1942
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        • March 1942
        • April 1942
        • May 1942
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      • 1943
        • January 1943
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      • 1944
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        • September 1944
        • October 1944
        • November 1944
        • December 1944
    • Irish Democrat 1945-1950
      • 1945
        • January 1945
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        • Special: Young Irelanders 1848-1948
        • July 1948
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    • Irish Democrat 1951-1960
      • 1951
        • January 1951
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      • 1954
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      • 1955
        • January 1955
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      • 1956
        • January 1956
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        • August 1956
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        • October 1956
        • November 1956
        • December 1956
      • 1957
        • January 1957
        • February 1957
        • March 1957
        • Special: Irish Elections March 1957
        • April 1957
        • May 1957
        • June 1957
        • July 1957
        • August 1957
        • September 1957
        • October 1957
        • November 1957
        • December 1957
      • 1958
        • January 1958
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        • December 1958
      • 1959
        • January 1959
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        • July 1959
        • July 1959 2nd
        • August 1959
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        • October 1959
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        • December 1959
      • 1960
        • January 1960
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        • March 1960
        • April 1960
        • May 1960
        • June 1960
        • July 1960
        • August 1960
        • September 1960
        • October 1960
        • November 1960
        • December 1960
    • Irish Democrat 1961-1970
      • 1961
        • January 1961
        • February 1961
        • March 1961
        • April 1961
        • May 1961
        • June 1961
        • July 1961
        • August 1961
        • September 1961
        • October 1961
        • November 1961
        • December 1961
      • 1962
        • January 1962
        • February 1962
        • March 1962
        • April 1962
        • May 1962
        • June 1962
        • June 1962 2nd
        • July 1962
        • August 1962
        • September 1962
        • October 1962
        • November 1962
        • December 1962
      • 1963
        • January 1963
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        • October 1963
        • November 1963
        • December 1963
      • 1964
        • January 1964
        • February 1964
        • March 1964
        • April 1964
        • May 1964
        • June 1964
        • Special: Summer 1964
        • July 1964
        • August 1964
        • December 1964
      • 1965
        • January 1965
        • February 1965
        • March 1965
        • April 1965
        • Special: Easter 1965
        • May 1965
        • June 1965
        • July 1965
        • August 1965
        • September 1965
        • October 1965
        • December 1965
      • 1966
        • January 1966
        • February 1966
        • March 1966
        • April 1966
        • May 1966
        • Special: May 1966
        • June 1966
        • July 1966
        • August 1966
        • September 1966
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        • November 1966
        • December 1966
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        • January 1967
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        • August 1970
        • September 1970
        • October 1970
        • November 1970
        • December 1970
    • Irish Democrat 1971-1980
      • 1971
        • January 1971
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        • March 1971
        • April 1971
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        • June 1971
        • July 1971
        • August 1971
        • September 1971
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        • November 1971
        • December 1971
      • 1972
        • January 1972
        • February 1972
        • Special: Bloody Sunday February 1972
        • March 1972
        • April 1972
        • May 1972
        • Special: May 1972
        • June 1972
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        • August 1972
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        • December 1972
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        • January 1973
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    • Irish Democrat 1981-1990
      • 1981
        • January 1981
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    • Irish Democrat 1991-2000
      • 1991
        • January 1991
        • February 1991
        • March 1991
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        • Special: Easter 1991
        • May 1991
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        • October – November 2000
        • December 2000 – January 2021
  • Art Theory
    • Notes on Art Theory    
  • Coughlan Articles
    • In Defence of the Nation State:
    • The Hollowing-out of Irish Independence
    • Opposing the EU’s Assault on the Nation State
  • Why Donate

Dialectics of Nature/Environment

The Dialectics of Nature

Planet Earth, Paradise Lost          [1987]

Science Item: The weight of a pound of feathers     [1986]

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