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BOOKING FORM LABOUR TOM JOHNSON TOM JOHNSON SUMMER SCHOOL 2011 Name: SUMMER SCHOOL 2011

Email: Speakers include: Michael D. Higgins Phone: Please tick one of the following: Dr Jane Suiter Early Bird Participation only Speakers include: Mary Fitzgerald (including Saturday night dinner) €40.00 Michael D. Higgins, Eamon Gilmore, Ruairi Quinn, Dr Jane Suiter, Mary Early Bird Fitzgerald and many more... Participation and Hostel Accommodation (including Saturday night dinner) €65.00 Dinner with An Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs, Eamon Gilmore TD: On Saturday night the party leader will give Please make cheques/postal orders payable to the annual Jim Kemmy address and present the and return to: JimKemmy Award. The dinner is included in the price of the weekend Tom Johnson Summer School Further Information / Accommodation List: 17 Ely Place, 2 For further information or an accommodation Langton House Hotel list in Kilkenny, please contact at Cathy Kilkenny City For details on how to make an electronic payment, Flanagan at 01 678 4700 or email please email [email protected] [email protected] 1st - 2nd July 2011

EARLY BOOKING DISCOUNT BOOK EARLY! To avail of discount bookings must be Places are limited and will be allocated received by June 6th 2011. on a first come, first served basis - so For further details or to book online go to: www.labour.ie/tomjohnson book early to avoid disappointment! TOM JOHNSON SUMMER SCHOOL DL 1095 26/5/11 15:38 Page 2 PROGRAMME OF EVENTS

Friday Saturday Tom Johnson was the first leader of the Labour Party 6.30pm Registration 10am The 4th wave of democratization – and he led the opposition in what next for the Middle East and Dáil Éireann.. A leader in the 7.00pm Welcoming Address North ? fight against conscription in Ann Phelan TD Speakers include: 1918, he was also the Dr Corinna Mullin principal author of ‘The (School of Oriental and African Studies, 7.05pm From Boston to Berlin – Democratic Programme’ University of London) Creating a fairer economy and society adopted by the 1st Dáil, Dr Vincent Durac Speakers include: (School of Politics and International Johnson set social and Nat O’Connor, Director of TASC Relations) economic goals for the new Ireland which stated Kathleen Lynch TD Mary Fitzgerald that “all right to private property must be Louise O’Donnell, Impact (Foreign Correspondent, Irish Times) subordinated to the public right and welfare” and ensured commitments to the welfare of children, 8.30pm Address by Michael D. Higgins, 2pm Government; Challenges and the poor, the aged and the sick. First initiated in Party President Opportunities 1994 by Labour Youth, the Tom Johnson Summer Speakers include: School, is a major event in the Labour Party Followed by Cultural Social Minister Ruairi Quinn calendar held every July; providing party members Deaglán de Bréadún young and old with an opportunity to discuss (Political Correspondent, Irish Times) issues with speakers from within and outside of Representative tbc the Party.

3.20pm Constitutional reform for a real republic The Jim Kemmy "Thirst for Justice" Award is Speakers include: awarded at the Summer School in recognition of Minister those who have courageously campaigned and Dr Jane Suiter, (We the Citizens) stood up for left wing political values. Past recipients of the award have included Rosanna 5.00pm Closing Address Flynn of Residents against Racism, pro-choice and Ciara Conway TD community activist Cathleen O Neil, Larry Wheelock on behalf of the campaign to 7.30pm Jim Kemmy Memorial Speech and find justice for his brother Terence, and to the presentation of the Thirst for Justice community in Rossport and Erris which was Award at dinner with An Tánaiste accepted by Vincent McGrath of the Rossport Five. Eamon Gilmore TD