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The Minority Voice$
The Minority Voice: Hubert Butler and Southern Irish Protestantism, 1900-1991

Robert Tobin

Print publication date: 2012

Print ISBN-13: 9780199641567

Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: May 2012

DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199641567.001.0001

(p. 258 ) Appendix 2 The Kilkenny Debates: Topics and Participants

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The Minority Voice
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Oxford University Press

  • 1954 [23 April]

    • Topic: ‘That Ulster's Best Interests Lie with the United Kingdom.’

    • Chair: Myles Dillon

    • Participants:

    • Colonel W. W. B. Topping

    • William Douglas

    • Sean MacBride

    • Eoin O'Mahony

  • 1955 [20 May]

    • Topic: ‘In an Atomic Age Can a Small Nation Stand Alone?’

    • Chair: Terence de Vere White

    • Participants:

    • Declan Costello

    • Noël Browne

    • Owen Sheehy‐Skeffington

    • Eric Dorman O'Gowan

    • Basil Liddell Hart

  • 1956 [12 May]

    • Topic: ‘Should Ireland Revise Her Language Policy?’

    • Chair: Cecil Woodham Smith

    • Participants:

    • Sean O'Hegarty

    • Myles Dillon

    • Risteárd Ó Glaisne

    • Seán O'Faoláin

    • David Greene

    • Gearailt Mac Eoin

    • Myles na gCopaleen

  • 1957 [25 May]

    • Topic: ‘Economic Survival—Is European Free Trade the Answer?’

    • Chair: Sean MacBride

    • Participants:

    • Per Federspiel

    • James Byrne

    • Garrett Fitzgerald

    • Juan N. Greene

  • (p. 259 ) 1958 [17 May]

    • Topic: ‘Has the Press Abused Its Freedom?’

    • Chair: Roger McHugh

    • Participants:

    • Vivian de Valera

    • Christopher Hollis

    • Brian Inglis

    • James R. Heavey

  • 1959 [30 May]

    • Topic: ‘That Irish Education Is Out of Touch with Modern Life’

    • Chair: Edward A. A. Shackleton

    • Participants:

    • W. B. Stanford

    • John O'Meara

    • among others

  • 1960 [21 May]

    • Topic: ‘That Ireland's Foreign Policy Is Unworthy’

    • Chair: Alec Newman

    • Participants:

    • Owen Sheehy‐Skeffington

    • Lionel Booth

    • Richard Moore

    • Declan Costello

    • Kennedy F. Roche

    • Patrick M. Quinlin

  • 1961 [?? May]

    • Topic: ‘Africa Belongs to the Blacks’

    • Chair: Peter Smithwick?

    • Particpants:

    • John Connell (Robertson)?

    • Oye Chukuwarra?

  • 1966 [21 May]

    • Topic: ‘That Rhodesia's Declaration of Independence Was Justified’

    • Chair: R. B. McDowell

    • Participants:

    • A. K. Asmal

    • J. S. Sheppard

    • Gerald Sparrow

    • Lionel Fleming

    • Hillary Jenkins

  • (p. 260 ) 1971 [?? May]

    • Topic: ‘Should Ireland should join the E.E.C.?’

    • Chair: Donall Ó Morrain

    • Participants:

    • Oliver Snoddy

    • Michael Sweetman

    • Raymond Crotty

    • T. J. Maher