WATCH: Marking 90 years of Muintir na TÃre
IrishCentral contributor Martin Quinn takes a look at the origins of Irish organizaiton Muintir na TÃre.
Martin Quinn Contributor
Jun 09, 2021
Muintir na TÃre personnel 1953; Canon John Hayes, Frank Lyddy, General Secretary and Most Rev. Dr. Thomas Morris, Archbishop of Cashel & Emly
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I have a strong affinity with the community development organisation, Muintir na TÃre, having served as National President from 2008-2011.
As a Bansha, Co. Tipperary native, it was a great honour to follow in the footsteps of its founder Canon John Hayes who was Parish Priest of Bansha/Kilmoyler from 1946 until his death in 1957 and is buried in Bansha cemetery.
April 29, 2021
Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal We warmly welcome you to join us for a tribute to the life, activism and legacy of Ernie Tate (1934-2021).
Ernie Tate believed capitalism is a cruel and unjust system that has to be changed. Ernie was born in Belfast, Northern Ireland in 1934 and emigrated to Canada in 1955. As a Marxist, union activist and revolutionary, Ernie spent his life working to achieve that in organizing against the war in Vietnam, in union struggles at Toronto Hydro, for protecting universal healthcare and living wages, and much else. Ernie, along with Tariq Ali, was a leading organizer of the Vietnam Solidarity Campaign in Britain, worked for Bertrand Russell’s International War Crimes Tribunal and was a founding member of the International Marxist Group in Britain.’ In 2014, Ernie published a memoir of his life on the far left in Canada and Great Britain called