120th Session (1969/1970)
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First Meeting:
"The Six Counties needs the Red Flag before the Green."
Saturday 25th October 1969
Second Meeting:
"That this House opposes the ownership of forgeign lands by foreign citizens" ammended to "That this house opposes the hoarding of land by Irish and foreign citizens"
Saturday 1st November 1969
(INVITED) Chair: Mr Stephen Barrett TD
Dan McCarthy, National Land League president
Cathal Goulding, Sinn Féin & IRA Chief of Staff
Apparently Dan McCarthy received the first standing ovation at the Philosoph for some time, precipitated, according to the Irish Times, by the words "In order to lead you not only have to see the light, but to feel the heat."
The Irish Times also notes the "amusing choice" of the proposed chair for this debate citing Mr Barrett's "antipathy towards U.C.C. and students in general" as the source of amusement.
"Revolt rather than Reform"
22nd November
Proposition Stephen Marks, writer and editor with the journal International Socialism
Opposition Dr. Garret Fitzgerald
Motion defeated by a 5 to 1 ratio.
