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Comedy

25 October 2018

Responding to Robert Tressel: A Panel

Event Partner Liverpool Irish Festival
Admission -
Start Time 2:00 PM
End Time 4:00 PM

Featuring artists David Jacques and Patricia Mackinnon-Day (also an LJMU academic) this panel is led by Patricia’s colleague and fellow academic Deaglan O Donghaile.

Please note: The panel date will be Thurs 25 Oct - not Wed 24 Oct - as outlined in the #LIF2018 brochure and some listings. We are extremely sorry for any confusion.

The panel will consider Robert Tressell’s work The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists, lauded internationally as a seminal text for socialists. Tressell (aka Robert Croker (and, occasionally, by his mother’s maiden name Noonan); b.1870, Dublin; d. 1911, Liverpool) had various professions and aspirations, but this book reveals him as a radical emigre. Join the speakers to find out more.

The panel takes place on the set of Kitty, a play which also looks at social welfare in the 1800s. Why not book both? Bookers may also be interested in The James Connolly Reader event on Tues 23 Oct 2018.

£5.

This event is held in partnership with Liverpool John Moores University

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