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Anthony Coughlan is an academic, Secretary of The National Platform for EU Research and Information Centre and retired Senior Lecturer Emeritus in Social Policy at Trinity College, Dublin. (It is suggested that he is left wing, however he has taken contrarian views on divorce and lately on the Marriage Equality Referendum) He actually gave evidence for Des Hanafin in the Challenge to the Divorce Referendum. He has contributed to various debates in the media such as on RTÉ's ''Questions and Answers'', both in his capacity as a lecturer and as a spokesperson for lobby groups such as the National Platform. He opposed EU enlargement and EU treaties such as the Single European Act, Maastricht Treaty, Amsterdam Treaty, Nice Treaty, Nice Treaty re-run and the Lisbon Treaty.〔(Video of Anthony Coughlan speaking on behalf of the National Platform - Election Broadcast )〕 Recently he has been making contributions to the post-Lisbon Treaty debate and made submissions to the Oireachtas committee on Europe on behalf of the National Platform.〔("Govt accused of failing to respect Lisbon vote" ). ''Irish Independent'', Friday 21 November 2008.〕 Born in Cork, he became politicised while studying English, history and economics at University College Cork in the fifties, setting up a branch of the Labour Party in the college. He moved to London where he studied for a postgraduate degree in Social Policy at the University of London. In London he joined the Connolly Association,〔("Seasoned campaigner savouring taste of victory" ). ''Irish Examiner'', 25 June 2001.〕 and would have befriended the republican socialist C. Desmond Greaves.〔C. Desmond Greaves (1913-1988 - An Obituary Essay by Coughlan A. C., Irish Labour History Society: ''Studies in Irish Labour History'', 1991〕 He returned to Ireland and took up a job lecturing in Trinity College 1961. He became involved in the Wolfe Tone Society when it was set up in 1964 becoming acting as its secretary as well Dublin Housing Action Committees, both of which were heavily populated by members of the Republican Movement most of which evolved into Sinn Fein the Workers Party. The Wolfe Tone Society(WTS) campaigned for civil rights in Northern Ireland and supported the NICRA. Contributed articles to the ''United Irishman'' and ''Tuairsc'' the paper of the Wolfe Tone Society. He left the Republican Movement in 1970, he was joint secretary with Raymond Crotty of the ''Common Market Defence Campaign'',〔Collins, Stephen. ("Same Argument, Different Year" ). ''Sunday Tribune'', 15 September 2002.〕 he participated in the ''Common Market Study Group'' and campaigned against Ireland joining the Common Market〔Ireland and the Common Market the alternatives to membership by Anthony Coughlan, Common Market Study Group (Dublin) Published in 1972〕 and has campaigned against greater European integration policies through various organisations since such as the Irish Sovereignty Movement〔''E.E.C. political union - Menace to Irish neutrality and independence'' by Anthony Coughlan The Irish Sovereignty Movement Publications (Dublin)〕 and National Platform. Coughlan married Muriel Sadlier in 1983.〔Mac Carthaigh, Sean. ("Anthony Coughlan : He is no Yes-man" ). ''The Sunday Business Post'', Sunday, 25 August 2002.〕 ==Submissions and articles== *(Turning us into real EU citizens ) by Anthony Coughlan, Munster Express, Friday, June 13, 2008 *( An EU Watershed Decision ) by Anthony Coughlan, Peoples Movement website *(Nation, State Sovereignty and the European Union ) by Anthony Coughlan, Studies An Irish Quarterly Review Issue 369, vol.93, Spring 2004 *(Constitution of the Dublin Wolfe Tone Society ) - Roy Johnston / Anthony Coughlan. *(Archive of Publications by Anthony Coughlan, Open Library ) *''The Case Against the Common Market'', a pamphlet by Anthony Coughlan and Roy Johnston (1967) 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Anthony Coughlan」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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