The plot thickens
Maxim Litvinov in 1905: did the Russian revolutionary have an earlier career as a travelling haberdashery salesman in Patrick Kavanagh’s Inniskeen?
Then again, that was considered Bolshevik party funds. And besides, it was in large-denomination notes, of which the serial numbers had been well circulated. He probably did still need to work.Maurice has just published a book on the tangentially-related Hotel Lux, a communist nerve centre in 1920s Moscow, which has a fascinating Irish angle. By the time you read this, I hope to have attended his Tuesday night talk on it as part of the Dublin History Festival.
There was another moment of alarm on Saturday when I chaired a panel on “War and Peace in Northern Ireland”. The habit extended to the man himself. O’Toole, now an SDLP MLA, did work experience in Downtown back around 2000 and never met the star, who was always out on the front line somewhere. But answering the phone once, he “shrank in awe” as the famous voice introduced itself as “Mallie!”
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