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Maurice J Casey
@MauriceJCasey
Historian @QUB_History | Intimacy, revolution and Ireland | Author: Hotel Lux (August 2024) | He/him | Миру — мир!
Aug 29, 2024 • 16 tweets • 7 min read
This photo shows Elisa, a woman born in Moscow in 1925, arm in arm with the love of her life Joyce.

Taken on Dublin's O'Connell Bridge around 1963, I found it in a garden shed in Galicia in 2021.

Let me tell you how 🧵 1/ Image It all began in 2016, when I began my PhD on Irish women and international communism.

I was astonished to discover that in the final Kremlin Palace debates between Stalin and Trotsky, an Irish woman named May O'Callaghan led an English translation team.

This is May in Moscow: Image