Niall Brennan and Kathleen Kane interviewed by Wendy Lowenstein in the Communists and the Left in the arts and community oral history project [sound recording]
- Bib ID:
- 2190148
- Format:
- Audio
- Author:
- Brennan, Niall, 1918-2005, interviewee
- Online Version:
- National Library of Australia digitised item
- Access Conditions:
- Access open for research, personal copies and public use.
- Description:
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- 1993 June 2
- 1 sound cassette (ca. 60 min.)
- Series:
- Communists and the Left in the arts and community oral history project.
- Summary:
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Brennan, Catholic journalist and intellectual and Kane, Catholic writer, speak of his Catholic left wing family background; Melbourne University studies; MU Labor Club & debate over Spanish Civil War; involvement in university dramatics; Catholic Action; Campion Society; successes of the Communist movement; Catholic-Communist relations; association with Catholic Worker newspaper; DLP split with Labor Party; his father's attitude to Communism; Archbishop's views on Catholic Worker; Australasian Book Society & publication of Australian literature, post WW2; production of Moliere's Tartuffe & the Catholic Church; dismissal from Catholic Weekly & The Advocate; Farrago magazine; Catholic working class and access to tertiary education & culture.
- Biography/History:
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Born in 1918, son of Frank Brennan, Attorney-General in the Scullin Government, 1929-1931, Niall Brennan has had a long involvement in Catholic left wing affairs, both as an activist and writer.
- Notes:
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- Recorded at Gladysdale, Vic. on 2 June 1993.
- Also available online http://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-205008394
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