Desmond Greaves’s formative years at the Birkenhead Institute, 1925–31

Doctus in se semper divitas habet. (School motto: ‘The learned man always has riches within himself’.)   By Michael Quinn Charles Desmond Greaves, the historian, poet, scientist, philosophical thinker and political activist who dedicated the greater part of his life to Irish affairs, was born in 1913 in Birkenhead on the Wirral Peninsula, across the ... Read more

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