Cluskey: The Conscience of Labour

Frank Cluskey CoverCluskey: The Conscience of Labour

Edited by Dr Jack McGinley
ISBN 978-0-9928439-2-2 (hardback) 978-0-9928439-3-9 (paperback)
275 pages including 16 pages of pictures
Published July 2015 in an edition of 125 hardback and 375 paperback copies

Frank Cluskey (1930-89) was a Dublin-born Trade Unionist and Labour politician. This book of essays and memories explores his life and his politics.

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The Editor signing the Tánaiste's copy
The Editor signing the Tánaiste’s copy

Tánaiste Joan Burton launched the book in Liberty Hall on Wednesday 1st July 2015. A recording of the evening can be found here and the Tánaiste’s speech is here.

The book can be purchased from this website or from Dubray Books, Grafton Street; Connolly Books, Temple Bar; the Library Shop, Trinity College; Books Upstairs, Dolier Street (all in Dublin) and the University Bookshop, Maynooth, Co. Kildare.

Here is a review by Michael Halpenny which appeared in the SIPTU newspaper Liberty in September 2015.

Here is a review by D Rayner O’Connor Lysaght.

Here is a review by Barry Desmond in the Dublin Review of Books April 2016.

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