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IE IE/DDA IE/DDA/AB8/XXIII./8/346
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Untitled
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3pp 2 items
Name of creator
(28/07/1895- 07/04/1973)
Name of creator
(1500-2022)
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Scope and content
Typed profile of Professor George Thompson, Marxist, Birmingham University. Associated with Muiris O Suilleabhain and stayed at his house in Carrowroe, Co. Galway. Won O Suilleabhain’s son over to Marxism secretly. This boy went to Scoil Enna, Galway, to train as a National Teacher, but was expelled for propagating Communism among students. Now doing degree in Birmingham. Thompson regarded as a decent man and benefactor of Gaeltacht people whom he helps in Birmingham.