Cuban ambassador attends historical donation of documents from the communist party of Ireland to Dublin city central library
IRELAND, September 5, 2011.- The Communist Party of Ireland has donated to Dublin City Library a large collection of historical documents from the party archives, covering almost one century, which have been stored for years in its headquarters in Temple Bar, in order to make them accessible to the wider public.
The material, which tracks the history of the party from its foundation by James Connolly’s son Roddy in 1921 through to the present day, includes a jail journal by executed republic leader Liam Mellowes, historical records relating to volunteers who fought in the Spanish Civil War, the War of Independence, the Civil War, the Emergency and the Cold War, as well as unemployed action groups and campaigns against communism in the 1950s.
In an official ceremony held at the Gilbert Library in Dublin, CPOI General Secretary Eugene McCartan, and handed over the donation to Andrew Montague, Lord Mayor of Dublin.
Cuban Ambassador to Ireland, Ms. Teresita Trujillo was among the guests to the historical occasion. (Cubaminrex- Irlanda) |