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Hotel Lux: An Intimate History of Communism's Forgotten Radicals
Maurice J Casey
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Description for Hotel Lux: An Intimate History of Communism's Forgotten Radicals
Paperback.
'If affection is the first ground of memory, the archive is its late flowering and Hotel Lux its conservatory, Casey's history a tender nurture of pasts we overlook, but which whisper to us all the same' Irish Times
RTÉ Culture Book of the Week
'Tells the story of early 20th century communism through the eyes of those who lived it and felt and believed in it - while also living their entirely normal, rackety, emotional lives' Hallie Rubenhold, author of The Five
Hotel Lux follows Irish radical May O'Callaghan and her friends, three revolutionary families brought together ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2024
Publisher
Footnote
Condition
New
Number of Pages
418
Place of Publication
, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781804441183
SKU
9781804441183
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About Maurice J Casey
Maurice J. Casey is a historian based at Queen's University Belfast. His work focuses on the history of modern Ireland, queer history, and the history of international communism in the interwar world. He holds degrees from Trinity College Dublin, Cambridge University and the University of Oxford, where he completed his doctoral studies in 2020. He was a Fulbright Scholar ... Read more
Reviews for Hotel Lux: An Intimate History of Communism's Forgotten Radicals
Beautifully written and researched. Full of the fire of curiosity and the magic of discovery, Hotel Lux is a book that uncovers the radical in the everyday, the everyday in the radical.
Seán Hewitt
Seán Hewitt