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Book Launch, Dublin, May O’Callaghan, : An Intimate History of Communism’s Forgotten Radicals

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17 D’Olier Street,
Dublin 2,
D02 RX06,
Ireland

LAUNCH: Hotel Lux by Maurice Casey

Thursday 22nd August 2024 at 6:00pm

It is our pleasure to present the launch of Maurice Casey’s new book Hotel Lux: An Intimate History of Communism’s Forgotten Radicals, which follows Irish radical May O’Callaghan and her friends, three revolutionary families brought together by their vision for a communist future and their time spent in the Comintern’s Moscow living quarters, the Hotel Lux. This fascinating history history of international communism will be launched at 6pm on Thursday 22nd August. Join us to celebrate!

Praise for Hotel Lux

‘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

‘Hotel Lux illuminates the intertwined lives of a group of self-described “restless souls with impossible desires”, moving between a legendary Moscow hotel, Weimar Berlin, 1920s Manhattan, London’s East End and the west of Ireland. Maurice Casey writes with vivid empathy and his impressive research skills uncover complex networks of politics, ideology and love. A remarkably accomplished reconstruction of a forgotten world, its ideals, disappointments and delusions.’ – ROY FOSTER, Emeritus Professor of Irish History, University of Oxford

‘I loved this book. I love these women. Casey deftly interweaves their stories with the struggles across Europe of the day (many of which still echo today). A story of ordinary people attempting the extraordinary: to follow their dream of building a more just world. Casey brings the voices of these women bang up front and allows us to know them in a real and rounded way. There’s also great humour and lightness of touch not always found in such an impeccably researched historical account.’ – TARA FLYNN

‘Maurice Casey’s Hotel Lux is a rich and bracing work that brings to fresh light a fascinating new contour in the history of transcontinental communism.’ – ADRIAN DUNCAN

About the author

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 at Stanford University from 2018 to 2019. His writing has appeared in a variety of publications including History Today, the Irish Times and Tribune magazine. Hotel Lux: An Intimate History of Communism’s Forgotten Radicals will be his first book.

Hotel Lux: An Intimate History of Communism’s Forgotten Radicals€19.95