NUIG TO HOST CONFERENCE ON THE BRITISH LABOUR PARTY AND IRELAND

Date Published: 27-Feb-2013

NUI Galway will host a two-day international conference next week on the theme of ‘The British Labour Party and Twentieth-Century Ireland’.

Keynote speaker for the event is Dr Kevin McNamara, Labour Shadow Secretary of State for Northern Ireland from 1987-1994.

Dr McNamara will give his address in the Harbour Hotel in the city on Friday week March 8th at 6.30pm and it will feature a questions and answers session

The conference itself will take place in the Moore Institute and its aim is to explore the relationship between the British Labour Party and Ireland over the course of the last century.