Once again, the History Ireland Hedge School rolls into the Mindfield area of Electric Picnic this weekend, and once again I’m participating. We have two discussions lined up that hopefully will appeal to CHTM readers that find themselves in a field in Laois this weekend, and both of which were picked around historic anniversaries.
Both panels take place in the Leviathan tent of the Mindfield area.
The Radiators from Space, via peteholiday.com
The summer of punk, 1977.
Saturday, 12:45PM (Note the earlier start time than normal)
Forty years ago the Sex Pistols chart-topping ‘God Save The Queen’ thumbed its nose at the pretentions of the rock establishment — ‘prog-rock’, ‘concept albums’, long hair and interminable guitar solos. Meanwhile in Dublin bands like the Boomtown Rats, the Radiators From Space, The Atrix and U2 (yes, U2!) burst upon the scene, and from the North, the Undertones, Stiff Little Fingers and Terry Hooleys ‘Good Vibration Records’. Join History Ireland editor, Tommy Graham for a stroll down musical memory lane with Donal Fallon (Come Here To Me), Pete Holidai (Radiators from Space), Eamon McCann (journalist) and Anne Byrne (sociologist, NUIG).
Vladimir Lenin and Roddy Connolly, 1920.
The Bolshevik Revolution — in the dustbin of history?
SUNDAY: 3PM.
In the face of claims of the total triumph of neo-liberal capitalism and a generation after the collapse of the Soviet Union, how should we mark the century of the Bolshevik Revolution? Should it be consigned to the ‘dustbin of history’ — or can it be recycled? Join History Ireland editor, Tommy Graham, for a no-holds-barred discussion with John Horne (historian, TCD), Oliver Eagleton (playwright & activist), Brian Hanley (historian, Uni. of Edinburgh) and Frank Barry (economist, TCD).
