Rowan Cahill

Rowan Cahill (born 1945) is an Australian radical historian and journalist with background as a teacher, and farmhand, and has variously worked for the trade union movement as a rank and file activist, delegate and publicist. During the Vietnam War he was a conscientious objector, and was prominent in the anti-war, student protest, and New Left movements of the period, primarily as a publicist and communicator. These activities led to him being placed under surveillance by the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation (ASIO). Cahill has been widely published in socialist, trade union, academic and mainstream publications; he has written numerous pamphlets and booklets, and is the author or co-author of six books, including a history of the militant Seamen's Union of Australia (1981). As a classroom teacher, he was a prolific contributor to education debate via contributions to non-academic publications, particularly Education, journal of the NSW Teachers Federation. Between 2001 and its final issue in December 2006, Cahill was a regular contributor to, and Picket Line Correspondent for, the internationally acclaimed Sydney based labour movement online journal Workers Online. He works as a part-time teaching academic at the University of Wollongong, New South Wales. With long-time colleague Terry Irving (1938- ) he is a proponent of radical history.

Cahill is married to high school English and drama teacher, Pamela Cahill. Together they are parents to political economist Damien Cahill, sociologist Erin Cahill (sociologist) and poet Tim Cahill (poet).

Bibliography

• Cahill, Rowan, 'A Conscription Story, 1965-1969', The Hummer, Vol. 2, No. 4, pp. 17-22.
• Cahill, Rowan, Notes on the New Left in Australia, Sydney: Australian Marxist Research Foundation, 1969.
• Cahill, Rowan, Picket Line Dispatches: From the Joy Manufacturing Mining Dispute, 2000, Bowral, N.S.W. :Bull Ant Press, 2002. No ISBN
• Cahill, Rowan, Sea Change : An Essay in Maritime Labour History, Bowral, N.S.W. : Rowan Cahill, 1998. No ISBN
• Cahill, Rowan, 'Security Intelligence and Left Intellectuals: Australia, 1970', International Gramsci Journal, 1 (1), 2008,
• Cahill, Rowan, Synthesis and Hope, Sydney : Australian Education Network, 1993. ISBN 0-646-14571-1
• Fitzpatrick, Brian and Rowan J. Cahill, The Seamen’s Union of Australia, 1872-1972 : A History, Sydney : Seamen’s Union of Australia, 1981. ISBN 0-9598713-0-6
• Irving, Terry and Rowan Cahill, Radical Sydney: Places, Portraits and Unruly Episodes, Sydney: UNSW Press, 2010. ISBN 978-1-74223-093-1
• Stewart, David and Rowan Cahill, Twentieth Century Australia : Conflict and Consensus, Melbourne : Nelson, 1987. ISBN 0-17-007041-7
• Symons, Beverley and Rowan Cahill (editors), A Turbulent Decade : Social Protest Movements and the Labour Movement, 1965-1975, Newtown, N.S.W. : Australian Society for the Study of Labour History, 2005. ISBN 0-909944-09-1

Further reading

• Barcan, Alan, From New Left to Factional Left: Fifty Years of Student Activism at Sydney University, Melbourne: Australian Scholarly Publishing, 2011. ISBN 978-1-921509-88-9
• Barcan, Alan, 'Student Activists at Sydney University: a problem of interpretation', History of Education Review, Vol.36, No. 1, 2007, pp. 61-79.
• Barcan, Alan, 'The nineteen eightees: Prelude to curricular reform', Melbourne Studies in Education, Vol. 42, Issue 1, 2001, pp. 45-78.
• Duffy, Jodie, " Radical Thinking", Illawarra Mercury, 9 July 2011.
• Moore, Andrew,"A Secret Policeman's Lot': The Working Life of Fred Longbottom of the New South Wales Police Special Branch", in Shields, John, (editor), All Our Labours: Oral Histories of Working Life in Twentieth Century Sydney, Kensington: New South Wales University Press, 1992, pp.193-226. ISBN 0 86840 117 X
• Percy, John, A History of the Democratic Socialist Party and Resistance, Volume 1: 1965-72, Chippendale: Resistance Books, 2005. ISBN 1-876646-53-5

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