• 842/44
  • [c1973]
  • Item
  • Subjects include (transcript page numbers given in brackets): his parents and their ancestry (A1-A2); differences in religion and social status between his grandparents (A2-A3); attendance at St Margaret’s Roman Catholic school (A4-A5); attending lectures and debates on religious and political questions on Glasgow Green around 1904-1905 (A6-2nd page A7); controversy arising from support of Labour candidates in 1906 general election by United Irish League in Dundee and Gorbals, in defiance of League policy of support for Liberals (A7-A8); McShane’s annoyance of apparent unfairness of attacks on John Wheatley for arguing that Catholics could also be socialists (A9-A10); ); joining the Kingston branch of the Independent Labour Party in 1909 (A12); notable members of the branch (A13); breaking completely with religion on reading Blatchford’s ‘Not guilty – in defence of the bottom dog’ (A14-A15); giving a short talk after reading ‘A summary of Marx’s ‘Capital’’ by A P Hazel (A17); leaving the ILP after failing to persuade the Kingston branch to join the British socialist party advocated by Victor Grayson (A18-A19); provisional formation of British Socialist Party and its activities and membership in Glasgow (A19-A20); McShane’s dislike of the influence in the party of Henry Hyndman and Harry Quelch (A21); influence of electoral success of German social democrats (A21-A22); socialist campaigning against the threat of war (A23-A24); McShane’s continuing interest in the influence of religion (A25); influence on him of James Connolly’s, 'Labour in Irish History' (A25-A27); John Maclean’s belief in the importance of organisation and education as the means of bringing about socialism (A28-A29); wide range of socialist speakers at meetings in Glasgow in 1910-1911 (A29-A30); McShane’s belief in a revolutionary mass movement to which members of parliament should be subordinate (A30-A31); lectures on atheism, evolution and religious issues by Emmanuel Shinwell and others (A31-A33).
  • 35 pages (2 pages 7 & 8)
  • Open
  • Recording at 842/1.
  • English