A recent profile of Eamonn McCann in The Irish News repeated the mythology that McCann himself has cultivated. Central to this mythos is McCann’s abrupt departure from Queen’s University Belfast fifty years ago.
“I was asked to leave Queen’s after being involved in a riot,” recalled McCann. “I was drunk. I don’t remember what happened at all.”
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