Writer, poet and humanist. He joined Dublin's Democratic Youth Movement, nicknamed Desperate Young Marxists, in the late 1940s. Driven by unemployment to England in 1950, he trained as an electrician. As a radical attracted to Harlow New Town in the late 1950s, he renounced communism and embraced pacifism. He marched from Aldermaston to London as a member of the Committee of 100, was arrested alongside Bertrand Russell and sentenced to three weeks in Brixton Prison.
Writer, poet and humanist. He joined Dublin's Democratic Youth Movement, nicknamed Desperate Young Marxists, in the late 1940s. Driven by unemployment to England in 1950, he trained as an electrician. As a radical attracted to Harlow New Town in the late 1950s, he renounced communism and embraced pacifism. He marched from Aldermaston to London as a member of the Committee of 100, was arrested alongside Bertrand Russell and sentenced to three weeks in Brixton Prison.
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