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just after discovering that my great-great granduncle John Mcateer was funded by Lenin's old secretary's organisation to flee to the soviet union after being imprisoned for robbing a post office in Liverpool and so he then changed his name to David Ivanowich
in 1937 he was executed for drunkenly accusing the Odessa CP branch leader of being a trotskyist
not to mention that he occupied Rotunda with my other great-great granduncle Jim Phelan, along with Liam O'Flaherty, chair of the council for the unemployed
had no idea that any of these people were members of my family until tonight
this honestly sounds like something I would make up in a fantasy dream as a child but there is evidence of what I've spent the past 3 hours discovering https://www.georgegarrettarchive.co.uk/component/content/article/2-uncategorised/73-jim-phelan-s-liverpool-home.html
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p00hrcg4 great-granduncle Jim Phelan, who was homeless, on the BBC giving an insight into the life of tramps in Wales, including how they earn money on the road
