Roy Johnston
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| Born | 1929 Dublin City, Ireland |
| Era | 20th-century philosophy |
| Region | Western Philosophy |
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Marxism, Irish Republicanism |
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Social Science, Politics |
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Roy Johnston (born 1929) is an Irish physicist. He was a Marxist who as a member of the IRA in the 1960s argued for a National Liberation Strategy to unite the Catholic and Protestant working classes. He wrote extensively for papers including the United Irishman and Irish Times.
His father was Joseph Johnston, a farmer, economist and historian, a fellow of Trinity College, Dublin and a member of the Seanad Éireann on several occasions between 1938 and 1954. Joe Johnston was a home ruler who hailed from a small farming Ulster-Scots Presbyterian background in Tyrone.
Roy was born in Dublin in 1929 he was educated at St. Columba's College, Rathfarnham, and Trinity College Dublin. At TCD he studied experimental science and mathematics (BA, 1951), and did research in theoretical physics (PhD 1955).
Roy Johnston has been affiliated to various progressive and left wing organisations throughout his life. As a student in Trinity he was associated with a Marxist group, the Promethean Society, which in 1948 was part of the formation of the Irish Workers’ League, eventually becoming the Communist Party of Ireland.
He moved to England and joined the Connolly Association, also being part of the Communist Party of Great Britain, returned to Ireland in 1963 and at the invitation of Cathal Goulding involved himself with the Wolfe Tone Society in Dublin. He joined Sinn Féin and the IRA where he became its Director of Education sitting on the Army Executive.
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