[Image
and caption added by this website]New
York, Monday, March 10, 2008 Irving talk
cancelled in Ireland
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A
debate by
Holocaust
denier David
Irving at an Irish college was cancelled due
to security concerns.
University College Cork in Ireland cancelled
Irving's March 10 appearance over security
concerns after members of the debating club
which invited him received death threats.
Irving had been invited by the university's
philosophical society to contribute to a debate
on free speech and censorship, but the group
withdrew its invitation to Irving on advice from
administrators and police when a weeklong
internet-driven protest campaign escalated into
calls for violent protests at the event.
The controversial author did appear as a
guest on Ireland's most-watched television show
on Friday, however. Police had to break up a
small demonstration outside the Dublin studios
of RTE, the national broadcaster, after
protesters tried to prevent taxis from arriving
there.
This is the third time an appearance by
Irving has been cancelled in Ireland since he
lost a high-profile libel case in 1998
[sic. 2000] against historian
Deborah Lipstadt, who exposed his work on
the Holocaust as fraudulent and
anti-Semitic.