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Press Release
BRENDAN
‘THE DARK’ HUGHES COMMEMORATIVE LECTURE,
THE
PLAYHOUSE,
DERRY,
23rd
OCTOBER 2016
The Brendan
Hughes Commemoration Committee is pleased to announce that Martin Galvin will
deliver the 2016 Brendan Hughes Lecture in Derry (The Playhouse, 7pm on Sunday
the 23rd of October).
Previous
Brendan Hughes Lecture speakers include Republican Ex-Pows Anthony McIntyre, Tommy
McKearney, and Gerard Hodgins as well as International Human Rights lawyer
Gareth Pierce, Clare Daly TD, and the former Lord Mayor of Dublin, Christy
Burke.
Introducing the 2016 Brendan Hughes Commemoration Lecturer, Martin
Galvin:
Martin
Galvin is a New York Lawyer and former National Publicity Director for Irish
Northern Aid (Noraid) and editor of the IRISH
PEOPLE newspaper. Today, he co-hosts Radio Free Eireann, (available via
WBAI.ORG).Martin is a well-known and well-respected speaker at Republican
events across Ireland and the US. For many years, the British government banned
him from entering the north of Ireland and the Irish government banned him from
being interviewed by the media.
In 1984 Belfast man, Sean Downes, was murdered in
cold blood, in front of TV cameras, and score more were injured, when the RUC
opened fire as Martin addressed a peaceful rally. In 1989, in Derry City,
Martin was seized by British troops and taken to England and placed on a
military plane to the United States.
In New York,
Martin’s work has been widely recognized, for example, by conferral of the prestigious
post of Aide to the Grand Marshal of the New York St Patrick's Day Parade. This
appointment forced the PSNI to withdraw from the parade.
Is mise,
Joe Bell,
Chairperson,
Brendan Hughes Commemoration Committee
The annual Brendan Hughes Memorial Lecture will take place on Saturday 3rdMay at 7.00pm in The Donegal Celtic Social Club, Belfast.
The guest speakers will be renowned human rights advocate Gareth Peirce and Independent TD Clare Daly. The theme is be “Draconian Laws, Draconian Government”.
Former republican hunger striker Gerard Hodgkins delivered the 2013 annual Brendan Hughes memorial lecture in Derry on the 1st of May.
Being asked to come here tonight and present this lecture is an honour which I feel I do not deserve. Brendan Hughes was my friend and my comrade in life and in death he remains an inspiration to me, and many others; because if the life and times of Brendan Hughes have taught me anything it is that it is possible to remain a principled and decent human being both amid the smog of war and the lessening of moral codes that all wars bring and more importantly during the post-war carve up when unscrupulous politicians rise like scum to the surface and hoover up all the gains of the sacrifices for their own personal ends.
A fundraiser to help aid the hosting of the Brendan Hughes annual lecture will held in the Celtic Bar in Derry this Sunday evening
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