Journalist and author Fintan Drury coming to Dundalk to discuss his new book

Culture Club and Roe River Books are delighted to welcome Fintan Drury to Dundalk to discuss his new book, Catastrophe: Nakba II, in Roe River Books on Friday June 27th at 7pm.

This eye-opening and urgent new book by well-known journalist, author and migration activist Fintan Drury is an insightful and moving analysis of the decades-long oppression of the Palestinian people by Israel.

Featuring interviews conducted by the author in Jordan, Lebanon and the West Bank in the summer of 2024, Catastrophe: Nakba II provides a coherent and convincing narrative that underscores the position of those who support Palestine and informs those open to persuasion of the merits of its case.

It is an insightful and moving analysis of the decades-long oppression of the Palestinian people by Israel.

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Its publication now, as Israel plans the complete removal of all Palestinians from Gaza, could hardly be more relevant.

Catastrophe - Nakba II provides a coherent and convincing narrative that underscores the position of those who support Palestine and informs those open to persuasion of the merits of its case.

The Nakba or ‘Catastrophe’ (1947–49) saw 15,000 Palestinians massacred and more than 700,000 expelled from their homeland by Israel.

Today, a second Nakba is being played out in front of our eyes. In Catastrophe - Nakba II Fintan Drury argues that the Hamas attack on 7 October 2023 was the inevitable result of almost eight decades of violent oppression of Palestinians by Israel and hat Israel’s response was completely disproportionate – a genocide facilitated by the active sponsorship of major Western powers.

Provocative and unapologetically direct, this book is a call to understand the unique suffering of the Palestinian people.

Fintan Drury was a journalist with RTÉ in the 1980s. With David Hanly, he co-presented Morning Ireland over its first three years.

Previously, he’d been a correspondent in Northern Ireland and reported from Britain, Europe, Africa and the USA.

A longtime activist on migration, he has written extensively on the subject.

In 2016 he volunteered in a refugee camp in Athens at the height of the Syrian war, which led to a fifteen part series in The Irish Times on the diary of a Syrian refugee. Drury lives and works in Dublin and is the chair of SARI (Sport Against Racism Ireland).

Admission is free but booking is essential on www.eventbrite.ie