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Oct 9, 2024 · A new book by Dr Maurice Casey called Hotel Lux: An Intimate History of Communism’s Forgotten Radicals, tells the story of how a jet-setting Wexford woman travelled from Wexford to Vienna to London to Moscow, was a contemporary of some of the most famed suffragettes and ultimately became the head of English translation for the Comintern in So...
Jul 30, 2024 · Resident in Soviet Moscow from 1924 to 1928, she witnessed a city and movement undergoing a moment of extraordinary transformation. During this period, she lived in room five of Moscow’s famous Hotel Lux.
Sep 29, 2024 · Myles is joined by Dr Maurice Casey to talk about the life of Wexford-born communist May O'Callaghan, who was once a resident of Moscow's fabled Hotel Lux.
Jun 21, 2024 · Historian Maurice Casey reveals the connections and disconnections of a group of forgotten communist activists whose lives collided in 1920s Moscow: a brilliant Irish translator, a maverick author, the rebel daughters of an East London Jewish family, and a family of determined German anti-fascists.
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Sep 5, 2024 · It is rather accurate: for the reader interested in the romance-laced detective story, the author, Maurice J Casey, has them covered. For the reader interested in the narrative history of international communism, they may have been tricked by the disguise.
Jun 4, 2014 · His story collection, A Day For The Fire And Other Stories, won several awards in 2005, and his last novel, In Their Dreams of Fire (2011), has been hailed as the greatest Irish...
Dec 6, 2004 · The Ulster actor Maurice O'Callaghan, who was well known for his work in the original Group Theatre, has died.
