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Ken Saro-Wiwa Collection

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Maynooth University Library Ken Saro-Wiwa Seminar and book launch

On 14th November  2017, the Maynooth University Library hosted a seminar with Mark Dummett, Amnesty International London, as keynote speaker.

The online open access edition of  “Silence Would be Treason: Last Writings of Ken Saro-Wiwa” was launched at the event.

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Noo Saro-Wiwa visits Maynooth University Library

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Remembering Ken Saro-Wiwa at Maynooth University

On Thursday 10 November 2016, 21 years following the execution of Ken Saro-Wiwa on 10 November 1995, Maynooth University Library hosted a lunchtime programme Remembering Ken Saro-Wiwa.

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Ken Saro-Wiwa Letters donated to Maynooth University

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Telling the Ogoni Story at Maynooth University Library

On Monday, July 25, 2016
25 schoolchildren, and their mothers, sat enraptured, listening to Sister Majella McCarron telling the story of Ken Saro-Wiwa, in the bean bag room of the Library.

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Launch of Silence Would be Treason: Last Writings of Ken Saro-Wiwa

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Launch of Silence Would be Treason: Last Writings of Ken Saro-Wiwa

On the 7th of November 2013 Dr Owens Wiwa launched Silence Would be Treason at Maynooth University Library.

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Development Education Week at Maynooth University Library

As part of MU Development Education Week 2014, students from St Wolston’s Secondary School in Celbridge visited the University Library, where they viewed an exhibition of material from the Ken Saro-Wiwa Archive. Sister Majella McCarron visited the Library to meet the students and to discuss her involvement in Ken Saro-Wiwa’s non-violent campaign to stop the environmental destruction of his homeland in the Niger Delta. The students also visited the Archives and Special Collections Reading room.

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