The Dublin Housing Action Committee was a 1960s protest group formed in response to housing shortages in Dublin, Ireland's capital city. It quickly moved to direct action and successfully squatted bui
20 Mountjoy Square in 2020
Máirín de Burca
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Máirín de Burca is an Irish writer, journalist and political and social activist. In a career spanning more than six decades, she was a leading figure in Sinn Féin and Official Sinn Féin, a founding m
Dublin Housing Action Committee
…its 1970 split), Seán Ó Cionnaith, Proinsias De Rossa, and Eamonn McKenna (1936-2011) who would join the Official Sinn Féin faction, Michael O'Riordan, Máirín de Burca, Sam Nolan, Margaret Gaj, Bernard Brown (served as chairman) and Fr. Austin Flannery. The DHAC called for a housing emergency to be declared, a prohibition…
The film Judgment at Nuremberg had a significant influence on the political views of de Burca