Fr Austin (Liam) Flannery (10 January, 1925 – 21 October, 2008) OP, was a Dominican priest, editor, publisher and social justice campaigner.
[1] He joined the Dominican Order, in September 1944, led to studies in theology at St Mary's Priory, Tallaght, and then at Blackfriars, Oxford.
[2] Flannery edited the Dominican bi-monthly journal entitled Doctrine and Life from 1958 to 1988, while at St. Saviour’s Priory, Dublin where he also served as prior from 1957 to 1960.
Flannery's campaigning to end apartheid in South Africa, led to involvement with Kader Asmal, and the founding the Irish Anti-Apartheid Movement, of which he served as chairman and president.
In the late sixties his campaigning on behalf of the Dublin Housing Action Committee, due to its association with republicans and left wing activists, led him to being accused of being a communist.